Mr. A. J. Campbell on a new Emu-Wren. 399 



Iris dark brown ; bill vermilion, tipped with black ; feet 

 deep orange. 



279. LoRicuLUS REGULUs Souanc6. (Grant, Ibis, 1896, 

 p. 562.) 



From Canloon, Negros. 



Iris stone-grey; bill vermilion, tipped with black; feet 

 orange. 



280. LoRicuLus woRCESTERi Stccre. (Grant, Ibis, 1897, 

 p. 249.) 



This species was met with in Saraar and Leite. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXIII. — Description of a new Emu-Wren. 

 By A. J. Campbell. 



(Plate VII.) 



The occurrence of a second species of Stipiturus, or Emu- 

 Wren, in Australia will doubtless be of great interest to 

 ornithologists. It is many years since Shaw described the 

 original species. 



On the 14th April, 1898, near the North-west Cape, 

 Mr. Tom Carter shot a pair of the new Emu- Wrens, and on 

 December 8th following procured a second pair in the same 

 vicinity. Mr. Carter kindly forwarded a skin (of a female) to 

 me, which I provisionally described as Stipiturus rujiceps^ 

 before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. At my 

 request Mr. Carter has now forwarded a male, which fully 

 confirms the new species — one of the smallest of Australian 

 birds. 



It differs from the ordinary Emu- Wren in its smaller size 

 and in the richer colouring of blue upon the throat (of the 

 male) ; the crown of the head is rufous brown, and the curious 

 tail-feathers are not so filamentary or loose in structure as in 

 S. malacurus. 



Description. — Male. Forehead, crown of head, and neck 



* See 'Victorian Naturalist,' vol. xv. p. 116 (1899). 



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