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XXI. Account of a New Species of Mufcicapa, from New South Wales. 
By Major-General Thomas Davies, F.R.S. and LS. 
Read February 6, 1798. 
5 fe epiicna had the good fortune to procure fine {pecimens of the 
male and female of a fingular bird from New South Wales, . 
which the natives of that country call the Merion Binnion, or Caf- 
fowary-Bird, and as it is a fpecies at prefent very little known, I am 
induced to prefent to the Prefident and Members of the Linnzan 
Society an accurate drawing of both f{pecimens, in hopes that it may 
be found worthy of their acceptance. I am forry that I cannot at 
the fame time furnifh the Society with an accurate account of its 
manners. Even its genus appears to be rather difficult to deter- 
mine with the certainty I could wifh, and I fhall therefore leave 
that decifion to others more capable than myfelf. I have, as yet, 
claffed it in my own collection with the Flycatchers, as it appears 
to me to approach neareft to that genus. 
All the information which I have been able to procure refpecting 
it, from Governor Philip, Colonel Nepean, and other Gentlemen, 
who refided fome years in New South Wales, is, that it is found 
about Sidney and Botany-Bay, in marfhy places, abounding with 
long grafs and fine rufhes, in which it hides itfelf very dexteroufly ; 
that, 
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