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being lined with feathers ; but there were no eggs ; unfor- 

 tunately from this time the birds deserted the nest." 



Lores greyish white ; all the upper surface and wings 

 brown; tail brownish black, the three lateral feathers on 

 each side largely tipped with white ; centre of the throat 

 rufous ; the remainder of the under surface brownish grey, 

 passing into sandy buff on the flanks and under tail-coverts ; 

 irides reddish brown, with an outer ring of yellowish white ; 

 upper mandible reddish brown ; lower mandible greenish 

 white ; legs and feet dark greenish grey. 



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Genus ORIGMA, Gould, 



The only species of this form yet discovered, the structure, 

 habits, and manners of which are all equally singular, 

 inhabits New South Wales, where it frequents stony gullies 

 and rocky situations in the neighbourhood of caverns, to the 

 roofs of which it attaches its pendant nest. 



Sp. 236. ORIGMA RUBRICATA. 



Rock-Waubler. 



Sylvia rubricata, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. li. 



Ruddy Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 249. 



Motacilla solitaria, Lewin, Birds of New Holl., pi. 16. 



Solitary Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. vi. p. 220. 



Saxicola solitaria, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 230. 



Origma solitaria, G. R. Gray, List of Gen, of Birds, 2nd edit. p. 30. 



Origma rubricata, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. iii. pi. 69. 



The true habitat of this species is New South AVales, over 

 which part of the country it is very generally distributed 

 wherever situations occur suitable to its habits ; water-courses 

 and the rocky beds of gullies, both near the coast and among 

 the mountains of the interior, being equally frequented by it ; 

 and so exclusively in fact is it confined to such situations, 



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