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I saw it when far distant in the mountains, the roughest part of 

 the country I had then or since visited. In the months of March 

 and April, when I was in Western Port, it came and perched on 

 the rigging of the vessel. — I apprehend it is migratory ; but if 

 this is the case, it does not depart to any great distance." 



2. Lathami. Muse, nigra, pectore abdominefjue purpureo-roseis, 



macula frontali crissoque albis. 

 Var. /3 ? vectricibus tribus extimis interne albo-marginatis. 



Froniis macula subrotunda, alba. Remiges rcc/n'cesque fusco- 

 nigrœ, subtus pallidiores. Tectrices inferiores nigrœ. Ros- 

 trum nigrum. Pedes fusci. Longitudo corporis, 4}- ; ahe 

 a carpo ad remigem quintam, 2^^ ; caudœ, '2-^^ ; rostri ad 

 frontem, |-, ad rictum, \ ; tarsi, yV. 



Muscicapa Lathami. V. in Zool. Journ. vol. i. p. 410. pi. 13. 



For the same considerations that influenced us when we 

 referred the last bird to a described species of Dr. Lathnm, 

 although it evinced some marks of difference from the fiuure 

 of that species, we are inclined to consider the bird before us 

 as a variety of the Muscicapa Lathami of the Zoological Journal. 

 It differs from the specimen there described in having the three 

 outer tail-feathers margined internally with white. The spe- 

 cimen in the Society's collection Avas met with at Port Jackson 

 by Mr. Brown, August 1803. 



■3. GooDENOvii. Muse, nigra ; abdomine, striga longitudiuuli 

 alarum, rcctricumque duarum lateralium marginibus albis; 

 front e, pcctoreque vividè coccineis. 



Frontis sincipitis partis pectorisqnc pluma? basi alba?, apice coc- 

 cineae. Striga lata alba longitudinaliter extendit per tec- 

 trices remigesqne secundarias. Remiges quarta et (|uinta 

 leviter in medio externe albo-marginatœ : ca^tenv utrinque 



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