AYES. 523 



Wings short, concave, with first quill moderate, fifth and sixth 

 subequal, longest of all. Tail moderate, rounded. 



Sp. Orthonyx spinicaudatus TEMM. PI. color. 428, 4-29; New Zealand, South 

 Sea Islands ; brown, white below ; the shafts of the tail-feathers projecting, 

 pointed. These birds climb on trees in quest of insects. Another species 

 of bird from New Holland, referred to this genus, differs not only in its 

 colours, but also in having longer wings; Orthonyx icterocephalusIjA.FRE8K., 

 Certhia heteroclita QUOT and GAIMARD, GDERIN Magas. de Zool. 1839, Ois. 

 PL 8. 



Malurus VIEILL. Bill short, with gape ample, culmen keeled, 

 tip curved, often emarginate, compressed. Bristles at the angle of 

 mouth. Nostrils placed in a large fossa, surrounded by membrane. 

 Tarsi long, covered anteriorly with a continuous horny scute, 

 slender. Wings moderate or short, with ten primaries, the first 

 short, or moderate, the fourth, fifth and sixth subequal, longest of 

 all. Tail graduated, narrow. 



Sp. Malurus cyaneus VIEILL., Motac. cyaneaViEiLL. Gal. PI. 163 ; Malurus 

 Lambertii VIG. and HORSF., WHITE Journal, PL 41, PHILLIP Voy. to Bot. 

 Bay, PI. 23; all the species are from New Holland or Van Diemen's 

 Land ; the males are distinguished by lively colours. 



Stipiturus LESS. Tail-feathers long, rigid, acuminate, with vane 



Sp. Malurus palustris VIEILL., Musdcapa malachura SHAW, Linn. Trans. 

 IV. PI. 2 1 ; from the southern part of Australia. 



Orthotomus HORSF., Edela LESS. Bill depressed at the base, 

 somewhat straight, slender, moderate (or in some long). Wings 

 short, rounded, with ten primaries, the fourth, fifth and sixth sub- 

 equal, fifth longest of all. Tail of various length, mostly moderate 

 or somewhat long, graduated, with feathers narrow. Tarsi long, 

 slender, scutellate anteriorly. 



Sp. Orthotomus Bennettii SYKES, Motacilla longicauda (and sutoria) GMEL., 

 LAFRESNAYE in GUERIN Magas. de Zool. 1836, Ois. PL 52 ; Orthot. edela 

 TEMM., Edela ruficeps LESS., TEMM. PI. color., LAFRESN. 1. 1. PL 5 i, &c. 

 Small birds from the East Indies, the first species noticed is known under 

 the name of tailor-bird (Sylvia sutoria), from its nest of two or three mango- 

 leaves sewed together with cotton-thread, filled internally with cotton and 

 down ; see MARTINET Katech. der Natuur. n. p. 194, PL 4, PENNANT 

 Indian Zool. London, 1790, PI. 10, p. 44, LAFRESN. 1. 1. PL 53; Ceylon, 

 China, &c. (It is probable, however, that this mode of nest-making is to be 

 ascribed to more than one species of this genus.) 



