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TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



105. Fringillaria antho'ides. 

 Coloured like a lark : above, Isabella, striped with 



brown ; beneath, paler and immaculate : above the eye, 

 and beneath the ears, a pale stripe : outer edge of the 

 secondaries, and inner edge of all the quills, rufous : a 

 dark stripe behind the eye. {fig. 63. b) 



Inhabits South Africa. Mus. Nost. 



Form aberrant. Lower mandible and feet pale : inner 

 toe shorter than the outer : four first quills almost equal : 

 throat inclining to dusky white ; breast of a darker isabella 

 colour than the body : belly and vent almost white : wings and 

 tail brown ; the latter quite even. 



106. Agrodroma bistriata. 



Earthen brown, varied with deep fulvous : beneath, 

 whitish : breast striped : on each side the chin, two 

 black maxillary stripes. Hind claw shorter than its toe, 

 and moderately curved. 



Inhabits Tasmania. Mr. Humphrey, Mus. Nost. 



Total length 6| inches ; bill, from the gape ^^ ; wings 3 ; tail, 

 beyond, 1^ ; tarsus ^ ; hind toe and claw |. Lores and eye- 

 brows whitish : ears light fulvous brown, bordered above and 

 below with a black stripe, and below the lower one is another : 

 two outer tail feathers white, with a black band along their 

 inner margins. 



107. Agrodroma Australis. 



Earthen brown, varied with light fulvous : beneath, 

 whitish : breast striped : on each side the chin a 

 single maxillary black stripe. Hind claw longer than its 

 toe, and nearly straight. 



Inhabits Australia or Tasmania .^ Mus. Nost. 



Total length 6^ inches ; bill, from the gape J ; wings 3-^ ; 

 tail, beyond, 1-jL ; base 2i; tarsus 1; hind toe and claw ^. 

 Closely resembling the last ; but there is no second black 

 stripe below the ears, the fulvous ground of the plumage is 

 much paler, and all the claws are much less curved. 



108. Pyrrhulauda Australis. Smith. 

 Head, ears, throat, and all the under plumage, deep 

 black : back, wing covers, tertials, and rump, light 

 earthen brown, or isabella : the feathers darker in the 

 middle : quills and tail black ; the two middle feathers 

 of the latter light brown. 



