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blue on the throat, aiul some white streaks on the feathers of the 

 ear-coverts, which are Ught rufous on S. malachurus. 



Dimensions in inches of a male 5. westernensis : — Total length, 

 7^ (including tail. 5^) : wing, i!;'; ; tarsus, !;'}; culmcn, ./„. 



While on the subject of Emu-Wrens, I may mention that a party 

 of field ornithologists, led by Mr. A. H. E. Mattingley, procured in 

 the Mallee district of Victoria, during the spring of 1910, the first 

 female of Slipitiinis mallee (Campbell. Emu, vol. viii., ]). 34). 

 but it was so damaged as to be almost unrecognisable. How- 

 ev^er. some of the party returned to the locality the following (last) 

 spring and secured several examples of both sexes. 



The female, in general upper surface, resembles the male — olive- 

 brown broadly striped with a darker colour, with forehead and 

 crown chestnut. Under surface cinnamon-brown, lighter on breast 

 and abdomen, while some feathers about the ear-coverts have a 

 bluish stripe, differing from the rufous stripe in the female of 

 the common Emu-Wren (5. malachurus) and the white of 

 5. westernensis. 



New Pseudogerygone. — Through the courtesy of Mr. H. L. 

 White. Belltrees. New South Wales. I have examined a small 

 series of a Fly-eater collected by Mr. S. W. Jackson in the north- 

 west corner of that State. I believe it to be hitherto undescribed. 

 and venture to name it 



Pseudogerygone jacksoni (Reddish-crowned Fly-eater), sp. n. 



Adult Male. — Upper surface olive-brown, darker on the head, 

 approaching cinnamon-brown ; wings fuscous, primaries edged 

 with grey ; two central tail feathers olive-brown, rest of tail almost 

 black (fuscous), broadly crossed with white, each feather also 

 more or less marked with white at the extremity, chiefiy on the 

 inner web, but in instances across both inner and outer webs ; 

 line from bill to over eye whitish ; dark spot behind the ear. 

 Under surface, including tail coverts, white ; buffy wash on flanks. 

 Eyes red ; bill and legs almost black, the former lighter at the basal 

 half of under mandible. 



Dimensions (approximately) in inches : — Length, 4.1 ; wing, 

 2.2 ; tail. 1.5 : tarsus, .7 ; culmen, .3. Dimensions in millimetres : 

 — Length, no : wing (outstretched), 80 : tail, 44 : tarsus, 17 ; 

 bill (at gape), 44 (Jackson). 



Adult female similar to male, but not so white on the under 

 surface ; greyish on throat and chest. Dimensions : — Length. 

 113 mm. ; wing (outstretched). 82 ; tail, 46 ; tarsus, 17 : bill (at 

 gape), 12 (Jackson). 



Juvenile. — Upper surface rufous : primaiies edged with ochraceous 

 buff ; eyes pale blue : legs brown. Dimensions : — Length. 86 mm. : 

 wing (outstretched), 62 : tail. 32 : tarsus, 16 : hill (at ga))e), 10 

 (Jackson). 



Habitat.— hlogiX Mogil district. New South \A'alcs. 



These birds are distinctly darker on the upper surface than 

 tyjiical P. culicivoru. taken m \'ictoria and Rnerina. from which 



