OP NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 283 



Inhabits South Africa. Dr. Burchell's Coll. 423, 

 369. 



Total length about 8^ inches ; bill, from the front ^ ; from 

 the gape l-j-g ; wings ;5 ; tail, from the base 4. Size and habit 

 of T. eri/throj)terus ; but the bill is longer, much more slender, 

 and is slightly curved. 



7. Tha3inophilus pectoralis. 



Above_, grey brown ; beneath, whitish : wings 

 rufous : crown of the head, black in the male, rufous 

 in the female : breast and lower part of the throat 

 crossed by transverse black lines : tail rounded, black, 

 banded with white. 



Inhabits the forests of Bahia, Brazil. Mus. Nost. 



Rather smaller than T. niveceus. Total length 5| inches ; 

 bill, front i3; wings 2f| ; tail, beyond, 1-^; base 2i ; tarsus, 

 1 ; middle toe and claw hardly ^. The grey of the upper 

 plumage is tinged with rufous, wliich is bright only on the 

 wings. The transverse lines on the throat and breast readily 

 distinguish this species : the chin, like the body, is white. 



8. CoLLURiciNCLA sMgata. 



Above, grey ; beneath, pure white, with a grey line 

 down the middle of each feather : stripe above the eye, 

 and round the ear, ferruginous. 



Inhabits Tasmania. Mus. Nost. 



Size of C. cincrea. Total length 8i inches ; bill, gape l^'^; 

 wings 4fg ; tail, beyond, 1^; base 4; tarsus If^. Bill deep 

 black : legs brown : margins of the greater covers, spurious 

 quills, and lesser quills, strongly tinged with rufous : lores, 

 ears, sides of the neck, breast, and body, cinereous ; inner 

 wing covers pure white: the ferruginous stripe above the eye 

 commences at the nostrils, and joins another, which margins 

 the ear feathers : rump and tail pure cinereous. 



9. Tephrodornis super ciliosus. 



Above, light cinereous grey : stripe above the eye, 

 band on the rump, and two lateral tail feathers, white : 

 ears and upper tail covers blackish. 



Inhabits Java. INIus. Nost. 



Total length 6'{ inches; bill, front ^; gape f^^; wings 

 3^ ; tail, beyond, Ifg ; base 2^ ; tarsus ^. Stripe above the 



