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pectoris pone semilunam nigram, et corpore inferiore flavis ; caudd 

 grised ; tectricibus cauds inferioribus albis vel subjlavis. 



Head, lores, space beneath the eye and a broad crescent-shaped 

 mark from the latter across the breast deep black ; throat within the 

 black, white ; back of the neck, a narrow line down each side of the 

 chest, behind the black crescent, and the under surface yellow ; back 

 and \ving-coverts yellowish olive ; •vvings dark slate-colour, margined 

 with grey ; tail entirely grey ; under tail-coverts -vvhite, or very 

 slightly washed with yellow ; irides reddish brown ; bill black ; feet 

 dark brown. 



Totai length, 7 inches ; bill, | ; wing, 4 ; tail, 3| ; tarsi, I . 



Hab. Van Diemen's Land. 



Nearly allied to Pachycephala gutturalis, but distinguished by a 

 shorter bill and by the colouring of the tail, which is entirely grey. 



Cysticola campkstris. Cyst. capite ferrugineo-rubro, dorso tec- 

 tricibusque alarum brunneo-griseis ; singulis plumis corporis snpe- 

 rioris fascid longitudinali saturate bi~unned oniatis ; caudd rufo- 

 brunned, plumis duabus mediis latd maculd nigrd juxta apices ; 

 corpore subtus pallidi cervino. 

 Head rūsty red ; back and wing-coverts bro^vnish grey, all the 

 feathers of the upper surface with a broad stripe of dark brown down 

 the centre ; wings blackish brown, the primaries margined extemally 

 with rūsty red, and the secondaries edged all round with brownish 

 grey ; tail reddish brown, all but the two centre feathers with a large 

 spot of black near the tip ; all the under surface pale bufF. 

 Totai lėngth, 5| inches ; bill, ^ ; wing, 2| ; tail, 2| ; tarsi, f. 

 Hab. Australia. 



Rernark. — For the loan of this new species I am indebted to the 

 kindness of H. E. Strickland, Esq. 



Calamoherpe LONGiROSTRis. Cūl, vittd pūlHdd, suprū oculos cer- 



vind ; corpore superne rufo, subtus saturati cervino; inento al- 



bido. 



Faint line over the eye fawn-colour ; all the upper surface reddish 



brown, becoraing more rufous on the upper tail-coverts; primaries 



and tail dark brow'n, fringed with rufous ; chin •whitish ; all the under 



surface deep favvn-colour ; irides yellowish brown. 



Totai length, 65 inches ; bill, Į^ ; \ving, 3 ; tail, 3 ; tarsi, 1. 

 Hab. Western Australia. 



