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Family CEATEROPODID^ ? 

 Genus POMATOSTOMUS, Cabanis. 



The members of this genus range over all parts of Australia, 

 but do not extend to India, where their place is supplied by 

 numerous species of the allied form Pomotorhinus. 



Sp. 292. POMATOSTOMUS TEMPORALIS. 

 Temporal Pomatorhinus. 



Pomatorhinus temporalis, Vig, and Horsf. in Linu. Trans., vol. xv. 



p. 330. 



trivh-gatus, Temm. PI. Col., 443. 



frivolus, temporalis^ et trivirgatus, Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. i. 



p. 229, Pomatorhinus, sp. 8, 9, 10. 

 Tur dies frivolus, Lath. Lid. Orn., Supp. p. xliii? 

 Pomatostomus tonporalis, Cab. Mus. Hein., Theil i. p. 83. 



Pomatorhinus temporalis, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv. 

 pi. 20. 



This species inhabits New South Wales, particularly those 

 districts where AnfjophorcB and Eucalypti abound ; it is grega- 

 rious in its habits, and is exceedingly noisy and garrulous. 

 Commencing with the branches nearest the ground, it gra- 

 dually ascends, in a succession of leaps, to the very tops of 

 the trees, whence, with elevated tail, it peers down, and 

 continually utters its peculiar chattering cry ; it is frequently 

 to be seen on the ground, but on the slightest alarm it resorts 

 to the trees, and ascends them in the manner described. Its 

 powers of flight are not very great, and appear to be only 

 employed to convey it from the top of one tree to another, 

 the whole troop following one after the other. 



The situation of the nest is somewhat varied ; on the Eu- 

 calypti it is mostly built at the extremity of the branch : 

 it is of a large size, and very much resembles that of the 



