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Motacilla solitaria. Lezoin, Birds of Nezv Holland, pi. 16. 

 Muscicapa solitaria. Lath. Gen. Hist. vi. p. 220. no. 110. 



The specimens of this bird in the Society's collection are in 

 very bad condition : but from their general characters, and the 

 accounts we have received of their manners, we consider them 

 as sufficiently according with M. Bechstein's group of Saaicola. 

 Mr. Caley in his Notes thus observes of these birds.— ^^ Cataract 

 Bird: an inhabitant of rocky ground. — While at the Waterfall 

 of Carrung-gurring, about thirty miles to the southward of 

 Prospect Hill, I saw several of them. I have also seen them in 

 the North Rocks, about a couple of miles from Paramatta : and 

 always upon the rocks. I never observed them in trees or 

 bushes." A specimen in the collection presented by Mr. Brown 

 is marked as found by that gentleman at Port Jackson, Septem- 

 ber loth, 1803. 



We have some doubt as to this species according exactly with 

 Mr. Lewin's Motacilla solitaria, and have therefore added a 

 more detailed description of it than is our custom when noticing 

 a published species. 



Fam. PiPRiD.E. 

 Genus. Pardalotus*. Vieill. 



1. PuNCTATus. Pard. sitpi-ù griseus, fusco undulatiis, capite 



alisque nigris albo punctaiis, striga siipei'ciliosâ alba, uropi/gio 

 coccineo ; siibtus albidus, gutture flavo. 



* We characterize the following species, althougii not in the Society's collection, in 

 order to point out the diflerence between it and Paid.puiictatus, which it much resem- 

 bles in general appearance. 



2. Striatus. Pard.dorso grisescenti-brunneo uropygio fulvo ; capite alis caudâque 



nigris, illo ulbo-strialo; striga superciliuri ad frontem Jlavà pone albû, pteromati- 

 bus apice coccineis, gulàjiavâ, pectore abdomineque albis,Jiavo parce variegatis. 

 Pipra striata. Lath. Lid. Orn.p.àbS, no. 13. 



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