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I have assigned to it the distinctive appellation of magna. 

 Nothing whatever is known of its habits and manners ; but we 

 may reasonably infer that they are very similar to those of its 

 congeners. The precise locality it inhabits is also unknown, 

 the specimen from which my description was taken having been 

 obtained from a general collection of Australian birds, without 

 the situation in which it had been procured being attached 

 to it. 



Head rusty red ; back and wing-coverts brownish grey ; 

 all the feathers of the upper surface with a broad stripe of 

 dark brown down the centre \ wings blackish brown, the 

 primaries margined externally with rusty red, and the second- 

 aries edged all round with brownish grey j tail reddish brown, 

 all but the two centre feathers with a large spot of black near 

 the tip ; all the under surface pale buff. 



Total length 5f inches ; bill f ; wing 2f ; tail 2f ; tarsi f . 



Sp. 209. CISTICOLA EXILIS. 



Exile Grass-Warbler. ■ 



Exile Warhler, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. vii. p. 136. 

 Malurm exilis, Lath. MS., Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. 

 p. 223. 



Cysticola exilis, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. ill. pi. 42. 



This species appears to have been fii'st noticed by Latham in 

 the seventh volume of his " General History of Birds " under 

 the title of Exile Warbler, and to have been subsequently placed 

 in the genus Cisticola by Vigors and Horsfield while engaged 

 in naming the collection of Australian birds in the possession 

 of the Linncan Society. Its natural habitat is New South 

 Wales and South Australia, in both of which colonies I 

 observed it to be abundantly dispersed among the thick beds 

 of grasses which clothe the valleys and open plains. I have 

 never received it from either of the other colonies, all of 

 which, however, are inhabited by nearly aUied species. It is 



