2. ASTUB, 



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covered all over with creamy-white down, longest on the head 

 and nape; pin-feathers just beginning to show on the primaries. 



Nestling, Eeg. No. B. 10158. Taken from the nest November 

 24th, 1885, Ivanhoe, N.S.W. "Iris darlc brown, eyelids, cere 

 and gape greenish, bill dark horn colour, legs and feet yellow, 

 claws light horn colour." Body covered with creamy-white down, 

 longest on the head and breast; pin-feathers showing through the 

 down of the primaries and secondaries. Total length 7 inches, 

 tarsus 1"6. 



Rabitaf. Derby (N.W. Austr.), Cape York, Eockingham 

 Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Eichraond 

 and Clarence Elvers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, 

 Victoria, South and West Australia, and Tasmania. 



A. 1 9 ^d. mntd. New South Wales. Pres. 



A. 2 9 ad. mntd. New South Wales. Pres. 



A. 3 cf ^^- sk. Pine Mountains, Queensland. Col. 



A. 4 ^ ad. sk. Gainsford, Queensland. Pres. 



A. 5 cf ad. sk. King George's Sound, West Australia. Col. 



5. Astur cruentus. 



The Chestjiut-collared Gosliaiclc. 

 Astur cruentus, Gould, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1842, p. US; id. Ann. d: Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. xi, p. 528 ; Gray, Gen. Bds., vol. i, p. 28 (1845) ; 

 Gould, Bds. Austr., vol. i, pi. IS (1848) ; id. Handhk. Bds. Austr., 

 vol. i, p. 43, sp. 18 (1865) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. W., 

 vol. ii, 2ndser., p. 165 (1888); id. Tab. List Austr. Bds., p. 1 

 (1888) ; Sharpe, Index Gould's Works, p. 21 (1893) ; Gurney, 

 jun.. Ibis, 1893, p. 349. 

 Urospizia cruenta, Kaup, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 176. 

 Urospizias cruentus, Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. 365. 

 Adult male. All the upper surface of the head, wings and 

 their coverts, back, rump, and tail lead-blue with a slight shade 

 of brown; a distinct rufous collar round the hind neck and 



