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spots and blotclies, while in others they are merely minute 

 freckles ; the eggs are three in number ; their medium length 

 nine lines, and breadth seven lines. 



The male has the crown of the head and all the upper sur- 

 face sooty grey, except a small white spot across the forehead, 

 a patch of the same colour on the shoulders and the anterior 

 edges of the tertials ; primaries and tail-feathers greyish black, 

 except the outer feathers of the latter, which are nearly all 

 white ; the second tail-feather on each side is also tinged with 

 white ; upper part of the throat sooty grey, the rest of the 

 under surface rich scarlet ; under tail-coverts white ; irides, 

 bill, and feet black. 



The female is uniform brown above ; wings dark brown ; 

 tertials and wing-coverts edged with reddish grey ; tail brown; 

 the outer tail-feathers on each side almost wholly white ; all 

 the under surface reddish grey ; irides, bill, and feet black. 



Genus MELANODRYAS, Gould. 



For the Pied Robins, of which at least two species inhabit 

 Australia, I propose the generic term of Melanodryas. 



Sp. 168. MELANODRYAS CUCULLATA. 

 Hooded Robin. 



Muscicapa cucullata, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. 51 ? 

 Hooded Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 223 ? 

 Petroica bicolor, Swains. 111. Zool., 2nd ser. pi. 43. 

 Petroeca cucullata, Cab. Mus. Hein., Theil i. p. 11. 

 Grallina hicolor, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 223. 

 Jil-hut, Aborigines of the mountain districts of Western Australia. 

 Goo-ha-mogin, Aborigines around Perth, Western Australia. 

 Black Robin of the Colonists. 



Petroica bicolor, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. iii. pi. 7. 



The Melanodryas cucullata inhabits New South Wales, Vic- 

 toria, South Australia, and Swan River, but not Tasmania. It 



