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isli brown ; all the upper surface and wings deep olive-brown; 

 upper tail-coverts reddish brown ; tail olive-brown, crossed 

 by a band of blackish brown ; cheeks, throat, and chest grey- 

 ish white, each feather margined with a broken line of deep 

 brown ; abdomen and under tail-coverts greyish white, tinged 

 with rufous, which is deepest on the flanks and under tail- 

 coverts ; bill dark brown ; irides lake-red ; feet brown. 

 Total length 4 inches ; bill -^ ; wing 2 J ; tail 2 ; tarsi f . 



Sp. 222. ACANTHIZA UROPYGIALIS, Gould, 



Chestnut-rumped Acanthiza. 

 Acanthiza uropygialis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part v. p. 146. 



Acanthiza uropygialis, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. iii. 

 pi. 56. 



I received examples of this new and well-marked species 

 from New South Wales, and believe that they had been col- 

 lected either on the Liverpool Plains or the country imme- 

 diately to the northward of them; but as there is some 

 degree of uncertainty as to the locality in which they were 

 procured, a knowledge of the true habitat of the species is 

 very desirable, and I should be happy if this could be ascer- 

 tained. 



The chestnut colour pervading the basal half of the tail and 

 the tail-coverts forms a very conspicuous mark, and presents 

 a strong contrast to the remainder of the plumage. That its 

 habits, actions, and economy are very similar to those of the 

 other members of the genus, there can be no doubt ; but on 

 these points also I am compelled to silence, no notes of any 

 kind having been sent with the specimens. 



Head, upper surface, and wings brown, slightly tinged with 

 olive ; the feathers on the forehead tipped with a lighter co- 

 lour ; rump and upper tail-coverts rich reddish chestnut ; tail- 

 feathers brownish black, largely tipped with white, which on 



