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Totai length 48 inclies ; bill 6į ; \ving 24 ; tail 9į ; tarsi 10^. 



Nab. Australia generally. 



Remark. — A verj^ noble spccies, \vhich has hitherto been con- 

 founded \vith the Gius Antigone of India, to which it is nearly allied, 

 but from \vhich it differs in being somewhat smaller in size and in 

 the black colouring of the legs. 



Myiagra concinna. 



The malė has the whole of the upper surface, wings, tail, aud breast, 

 lead-colour, glossed \vith green on the head, neck and breast, and 

 becoming gradually paler tovrards the extremity of the body and on 

 the \vings and tail ; primaries slaty black ; secondaries faintly mar- 

 gined with white ; under surface of the wing, abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts \vhite ; bill leaden blue, except at the extreme tip, which 

 is black ; irides brown ; feet blackish grey. 



The female has the head and back lead-colour, \vithout the greenish 

 gloss ; wings and tail brown, fringed with bluish grey, particularly 

 the secondaries ; throat and breast rich rūsty red ; abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts white, \vhich colour does not gradually blend with the 

 rūsty red of the breast, as in the female of Myiagra plumbea ; upper 

 mandible black ; under mandible pale blue, except at the tip, which 

 is black. 



Totai length 5^ inches ; bill \ ; \ving 3 ; taU 2| ; tarsi f. 



Hab. North-\vestern Australia. 



Remark. — Closely allied to M. plumbea and M. nitida. 



Herodias plumiferus. 



The entire pluraage pure white ; bill and orbits yellow. 



Totai length 24 inches ; bill 4 ; wing 1 1 ; tail A\ ; tarsi A\. 



Hab. New South Wales. 



Remark. — This species is distinguished by the gi-eater developemont 

 of the plumes depending from the chest, and by their structure assi- 

 milating very closely to those of the back. 



Herodias pannosus. 



The entire plumage bluish or slaty black, with the excei)tion cf 

 the chin, ^vhich is pure white. 



Totai length 24 inches ; bill 4^ ; wing lOį ; tail 4 ; tarsi 4^. 



Hab. Port Stephens, New South Wales. 



Remarki* — The deep leaden blue colouring of this species renders 

 it a very conspicuous bird. 



ArDETTA STAGNATILIS. 



Crown of the head, occipital crest and a small tuft beneath each 

 eye black ; neck and all the under surface grey, \vith a vinous tinge, 

 \vhich becomes rauch deeper on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; 

 lengthened feathers of the back bluish grey, with lighter shafts ; 

 wing-coverts dark slate-grey, narrow'ly margined \vith buff and white; 

 remainder of the wings and tail dark grej ; irides light yellow ; orbits 

 and eyelash gamboge-yello\v ; upper mandible and cutting edge of 

 the lo\ver mandible verv dark reddish brown ; remainder of the lovver 



