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NuMENius UROPYGiALis. Num. vevt'ice fusco, lined luteold angustd 

 et incEquali j)er medium citrrente ; iiropygio et tectricibus caudcR 

 fusco alboque fnsciatis. 



Crown of the head brown, with a naiTow iiTcgular stripe of bufFy 

 white doA\-n the centre ; lores and line behind the eye brown ; line 

 over the eye, neck and breast buffy white, with a brown line ([o\v\\ 

 the centre of each feather, the brown colour joredominating ; centre 

 of the back and scapularies dai'k olive spotted on their margins Avith 

 light buff; wing-coverts the same, but lighter and presenting a mot- 

 tled appearance ; primaries blackish brown with white shafts ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts ban-ed witli brown and white; tail pale brown 

 barred with dark brown ; chin, lower part of the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts white ; biU blacldsh horn-colour, fleshy at the base ; feet 

 grayish black. 



Total length, 15 inches; bill, 3; wing, 9^; tail, 3; tarsi, 2i. 



Hub. South coast of Australia. 



Nearly allied to N. Phceopus but distinguished from that species 

 by the broMii colouring of the rump. 



NuMENius MiNUTUs. Num. uropygio tectricibusque caudce intense 

 fuscis •,marginibusplumarum albo-guttatis; cor pore subtus luteolo. 



Forehead dark broAATi mottled with buff; lores and line behind 

 the eye buff; back, sides and front of the neck buff, with a fine line 

 of brown down the centre of each feather ; aU the upper surface 

 blackish broA^Ti, with a series of triangular spots round the margins 

 of the feathers of a sandy buff; shoulders, primaries and secondaries 

 blackish bro^^^l, the latter with white shafts ; laimp and tail-coverts 

 dark brown spotted witii white on the margins ; tail grayish brown 

 barred with black ; chin white ; under surface light buff; flanks and 

 under surface of the wing deep buff, regularly barred with arrow- 

 shaped marks of brown ; irides black ; bill fleshy at the base, olive 

 brown at the tip ; feet bluish flesh-colour. 



Total length, 12 inches; bill, \^; wing, 7; tail, 3; tarsi, IJ. 



Hub. New South Wales. 



This is one of the smallest species of the genus. I never but 

 once saw a flock of this bird ; out of which I killed two, on the race- 

 course at Maitland on the Upper Hunter. 



PoRPHYRio BELLus. Porpli. capitc, collo et corpore subtus intensi 

 caruleis; facie, gutture et pectore virescenti-cceruleis ; dorso, alis 

 cdvddque e fusco nigris. 



Head, neck and all the under surface deep blue; sides of the face, 

 front of the throat and chest greenish blue; back, wings and tail 

 brownish black ; shoulder and edge of the wing and outer margins 

 (jf the primaries greenish blue ; under tail-coverts white ; irides 

 bright red ; bill red ; legs grass-green, excejit the knees, lower j)art 

 of the tarsi and inside of the feet, which are dark greenish gray. 



Total length, 18 inches; bill, If; wing 10^; tail, 4|; tarsi, 3^. 



Hab. Western Australia. 



Otis Australasianus. Ot. vertice et occipite nigris ; capitis la- 

 teribus, collo et pectore e cinereo-albis fusco adspcrsis ; singulis 

 Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Vol. viii. L 



