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small triangular-shaped spots on the margins of their inner webs ; 
breast grey, washed with rufous ; under surface of the shoulder, flanks, 
vent and under tail-coverts deep rufous ; irides brown. 
Total length, 84 inches; bill, 3; wing, 5; tail, 4f; tarsi, 4. 
Hab. Port Essington, Australia. 
Remark.—Nearly allied to Cuculus insperaius. 
SPHENG@ACUS GRAMINEUS. Sphen. vittd supra oculos albd ; corpore 
superneé brunneo; medid plumarum saturate brunned ; subtis griseo ; 
lateribus crissoque cervinis ; media parte singule plume pectoris 
lined minimd saturate brunned ornatd. 
Stripe over the eye white; all the upper surface brown, the cen- 
tres of the feathers being dark brown; secondaries brownish black, 
margined with buff; tail pale reddish brown, with dark brown shafts ; 
under surface grey, passing into buff on the flanks and vent; each 
feather of the breast with a very minute line of dark brown down the 
centre ; bill and tarsi fleshy brown. 
Total length, 5% inches; bill, 3; wing, 24; tail, 23; tarsi, 3, 
Hab. Van Diemen’s Land and the southern coast of Australia. 
PacHYCEPHALA GLAucURA. Pach. capite, loris, spatio infra oculos, 
et lata macula semilunari trans pectus saturate nigris ; guld, intra 
maculam nigram, alba ; nucha posteriore, lined angustd apud latera 
pectoris pone semilunam nigram, et corpore inferiore flavis ; caudd 
grised ; tectricibus caude inferioribus albis vel subflavis. 
Head, lores, space beneath the eye and a broad crescent-shaped 
mark from the latter across the breast deep black ; throat within the 
black, white; back of the neck, a narrow line down each side of the 
chest, behind the black crescent, and the under surface yellow ; back 
and wing-coverts yellowish olive; wings dark slate-colour, margined 
with grey; tail entirely grey; under tail-coverts white, or very 
slightly washed with yellow; irides reddish brown; bill black ; feet 
dark brown. 
Total length, 7 inches; bill, $; wing, 4; tail, 32; tarsi, 1. 
Hab. Van Diemen’s Land. 
Nearly allied to Pachycephala gutturalis, but distinguished by a 
shorter bill and by the colouring of the tail, which is entirely grey. 
Cysticota camMprstris. Cyst. capile ferrugineo-rubro, dorso tec- 
tricibusque alarum brunneo-griseis ; singulis plumis corporis supe- 
rioris fascid longitudinali saturate brunned ornatis ; caudd rufo- 
brunned, plumis duabus mediis latd maculd nigrd juaxta apices ; 
corpore subtis pallidé cervino. 
Head rusty red; back and wing-coverts brownish grey, all the 
feathers of the upper surface with a broad stripe of dark brown down 
the centre ; wings blackish brown, the primaries margined externally 
with rusty red, and the secondaries edged all round with brownish 
grey; tail reddish brown, all but the two centre feathers with a large 
spot of black near the tip; all the under surface pale buff. 
Total length, 52 inches; bill, 3; wing, 22; tail, 23; tarsi, 2. 
Hab, Australia. 
Remark.—For the loan of this new species I aim indebted to the 
kindness of H. E. Strickland, Esq. 
