248 Mr. ViGons's 07id Dr. Horsfield's Description of the 



ance turning over like a tumbler Pigeon, and then immediately 

 returning to the same twig or bough from whence it sprang. 

 These actions it continues constantly to repeat. The skin is 

 very tender ; and it is difficult after having taken it oÛ' the body 

 to restore it again to its proper shape. The species is very 

 conmion about Paramatta ; and I do not recollect having missed 

 it at any period of the year." 



2. MoïACiLLOiDES. R/iip. nigra ; macula superciliari, pectore 



înedio, abdomine, crissocjuc albis ; remigibus nigro-fuscis. 



Gulœ latera parce albo variegata. Dorsi color niger in pectus 

 descendit, fasciam interruptam pectoralem exhibens, pec- 

 torisç\\\e colorem album, ut in circulo, ferè circumcingens. 

 Pteromafa ad apicem parce albo-marginata. Tectrices in- 

 feriores nigro alboque variœ. Rctniges fuscœ, subtus pal- 

 lidiores. Rostrum pcdesc[iie nigri. Longitudo corporis, 7^- ; 

 alœ a carpo ad remigem quartam,3^ ; caudce, A\ ; rostri ad 

 frontem, f, ad rictum, f ; tarsi, ^V. 



This species was discovered by Mr. Brown at George's River 

 in September 1803. It bears a great resemblance to the descrip- 

 tion of Dr. Latham's Motacilla atricapilla^, or the Black-topped 

 Flycatcher of his " General History'^", but differs in the colour 

 of the bill, back and throat. The latter species most probably 

 belongs to the present group. 



3. RuEii'UONS. Rhip. fusco-brunnea, frontc, superciliis, dorso 



injimo, caudce basi, abdomineque injimo rujis ; jugulo nigro, 

 guld pectoreque albis, hoc nigro-maculato ; remigibus rectri- 

 cibusque fuscis, his apice albido. 



Muscicapa rufifrons. Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. 1. no. 5. 



Rufous-fronted Flycatcher. Id. Gen. Hist. vi. p. 213. no. 95. 



* Ind. Ont. Supp. p. lih. no. 1. f Vol. vi. j). CI 4. no. 9G. 



Mr. 



