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surface grayish white, each feather crossed by numerous fine and 

 irregular bars of tawny and with a stripe of brown down the centre, 

 the latter colour becoming chestnut and forming a semilunar mark 

 down each side of the neck ; thighs black ; irides light yellow ; bill 

 and feet brown. 



Total length 15 inches ; bill, 25 ; wing, 9 ; tail, 7 ; tarsi, \^. 



In its general appearance this bird closely resembles the Podargus 

 humeralis, but is even smaller in size than P. Cuvieri, while at the 

 same time the bill is fully equal in size to that of the former species ; 

 it also projects much farther from the face than in any other species 

 inhabiting Australia. 



Hab. Swan River, "Western Australia. 



Malurus melanottjs. Mai. vertice, guld, abdomine, humeris, cau- 

 daque tectricibus lazulino-cceruleis ; loris, nuchd, vittd pectorali 

 et dorso imo nigris. 



Male. — Crown of the head, crescent- shaped mark on the back, 

 upper tail-coverts, throat and under surface rich metallic lazuline 

 blue ; ear-coverts metallic verditer-blue ; lores, collar round the back 

 of the neck, line from the base of the lower mandible dovra the sides 

 of the neck, band across the breast and lower part of the back jet- 

 black ; wings brown, margined with pale green ; tail greenish blue, 

 tipped with grayish white ; irides, biU and feet black. 



Female. — Lores rufous; head and all the upper surface rufous 

 brown ; all the under surface brownish white ; tail bluish green, 

 tipped with grayish white ; bill rufous ; irides blackish brown ; feet 

 brown. 



Total length, 4| inches ; bill, \ ; wing, 2 ; tail, 21 ; tarsi, f . 



This beautiful species may be distinguished from the Malurus 

 pectoralis by its rather smaller size, and by the black band across 

 the back. 



Hab. Western belts of the Murray in Western Australia. 



CoLLURiciNCLA BRUNNEA. Coll. covpove supeme fusco ; sic et cor- 

 pore subtus, at colore multo dilutiore ; rostra nigro. 



All the upper surface pale brown ; primaries and tail the same, 

 but somewhat lighter ; all the under surface brownish white, be- 

 coming almost pure white on the vent and under tail-coverts ; thighs 

 grayish brown ; bill black ; feet blackish brown. 



Total length, 9| inches ; bill, 1^ ; wing, 4|; tail, 4| ; tarsi, 1^. 



The sexes are alike in plumage. 



This species rather exceeds in size the Colluricincla cinerea, Vig. 

 and Horsf., and has a more curved, longer and stouter bill. 



Hab. The north-west coast of Australia. 



Colluricincla rufiventris. Coll. corpore supernl intense cinerea, 

 olivaceo leviter tincto ; abdomine imo, crissoque rtifis. 



Lores grayish white ; crown of the head and all the upper surface 

 deep gray, slightly tinged with olive ; primaries and tail dark brown, 

 margined with brownish gray ; throat and under surface darkish 

 gray, passing into buff on the vent and under tail- coverts ; all the 



