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bright crimson ; the bill dark greenish grey ; the scales of 

 the legs and toes greenish grey ; skin between scales light 

 ashy grey. I only saw the specimen I killed, but afterwards 

 learnt that one of my companions had seen a flock rise 

 precisely like Geop/iajjs scripfa." 



Mr. Elsey, writing from the Victoria, informed me that 

 " this lovely little bird was abundant on the Victoria, especially 

 about rocky holes and exposed hot gullies and on the hot 

 sandy beds of the broad rivers of the Gulf, where it was strut- 

 ing about in the full glare of the sun, with its crest erect. I 

 have shot six or eight at a time on those rivers. To ray fancy 

 this is one of the most graceful and harmoniously coloured 

 birds I have ever seen." 



To this I may add that Mr. Bynoe found it in the country 

 between Cape Hotham and the Island of Depuch. 



Bill olive-black ; irides yellow ; lores and bare skin round 

 the eye either crimson or orange red, bounded above and 

 below by a narrow line of black ; forehead and a line above the 

 black one over the eye grey ; centre of the crown and 

 lengthened crest-plumes delicate cinnamon ; chin and lower 

 part of the neck black ; centre of the throat and upper part of 

 the ear-coverts white; lower part of the ear-coverts grey; 

 chest very rich cinnamon bounded below by a crescentic band 

 of white, to which succeeds a narrow one of black ; centre of 

 the abdomen snow-white ; flanks cinnamon ; under tail-co- 

 verts brown, edged with greyish white ; under side of the 

 wings delicate cinnamon ; inner parts of the upper portion of 

 the primaries cinnamon, their outer webs and tips brown ; a 

 beautiful oblong bronzy-purple metal-like mark on three of 

 the secondaries ; back of the neck and mantle alternately 

 rayed with cinnamon and brown, the latter hue not so distinct 

 as the former ; the feathers of the upper portion of the wings 

 rayed with cinnamon, blackish brown and grey, the tips of the 

 feathers being cinnamon, their centres blackish-brown and 

 their bases grey; rump and upper tail-coverts cinnamon- 



