C04 ON NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS FROM QUEENSLAND. [NOV. 3, 



gape, with a narrow fleshy appendage, yellow. Feet and tarsi of a 

 dark hrown. 



Total length 8*5 inches ; bill from angle of mouth 1*05 inch, from 

 feathers at the nostrils 0o"5, from forehead T05, height at nostrils 

 02, breadth 02 ; wing from flexure 4-05 ; tail 36 ; tarsi 0*35. 



JIab. Rockingham Bay. 



Sexes alike in plumage. One specimen, said to be a male, is con- 

 siderably smaller in all its measurements, which are as follows : — 

 Total length 7"5 inches ; wing 3'65; tail 3*25 ; bill from angle of the 

 mouth 0'95, from feathers at nostrils 06 inch, from forehead 09, 

 height at nostril 0'2, breadth 0"2. 



4. EoPSALTRIA (?) INORNATA, HOV. Sp. 



Whole of the head dull slate-brown, paler round the eye, lores 

 darker ; lower part of the neck and all the upper surface washed 

 with olive ; wings above dark brown, having the margins washed 

 with olive ; inner edge of wing light olive-yellow, almost citron- 

 colour. Under wing-coverts white, washed with citron-yellow ; 

 inner margins of tertiaries, secondaries, and the basal margins of the 

 primaries wbitish ; throat greyish white; chest brownish grey, washed 

 with olive on the lower sides ; flanks, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 citron-yellow ; under surface of tail brown, shafts of feathers white ; 

 upper surface of the tail slightly darker brown, the exposed portions 

 of the feathers washed with olive. Bill and legs black. 



Total length bh inches; bill from forehead - 5, from angle of the 

 mouth - 65, height at base - 18, breadth 0'15; wing from flexure 

 3; tail 2*3; tarsi 07. 



Hab. Dense scrubs of the N.E. coast of Rockingham Bay and 

 Endeavour river, &c. 



5. Rhipidura stjperciliosa, nov. sp. 



Description ( 3). — Head dark slate-colour; a very conspicuous 

 line over the eye ; the throat and chin white ; the whole of the upper 

 surface dark slate-brown ; spurious wing-feathers with a spot of light 

 brown at the tips ; upper wing-coverts marked faintly at the tips 

 with white ; the tertiaries and secondaries having a whitish line on 

 the outer margin, which, becoming broader at the tips, forms an 

 irregular spot tinged with brown ; tail blackish brown above ; across 

 the chest a band of slate-brown, a few feathers in the centre of which 

 are striped down the shaft with a narrow lanceolate mark of white. 

 Abdomen and flanks buffy white ; under surface of shoulders white, 

 the basal portion of the feathers being dark brown. Under tail-coverts 

 white ; under surface of tail dark brown, having the outer feathers 

 on either side tipped to the extent of one third of its entire length 

 with white, which colour extends along the outer web to within one 

 third of the length of the feathers of the base, which is dark brown, 

 the next feather on either side having at the tip an oblong oblique 

 patch of white about "7 inch in length, the third feather on either side 

 having only a small margined spot of white at the tip of the outer 

 edge. Bill and tarsi black. 



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