OF NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 343 



183. Orthotomus longirostris. 

 Cinereous : beneath_, whitish : head, chin, and thighs, 



ferruginous : throat black : tail brownish, graduated ; 

 the latter with dusky black ends, tipt with whitish. 



" S. W. coast of Australia. M. Labillardiere." 

 Mus. Paris. 



Total length 4i inches ; bill, gape -^ ; wings 2-jL ; tail, be- 

 yond, 1 ; base \^^ ; tarsus ^. Sides of the body cinereous, the 

 middle white ; bill and legs pale. Allied to the 0. sepium 

 (Horsf.) of Java, but has no olive above, or yellow beneath. 

 (See Class, of Birds, Vol. II. p. 62. fig. 135.) 



184. Orthotomus sphenurus. 



Olive yellow above ; white beneath : hind head 

 and nape brow^n : front and crown rufous. Tail slender, 

 cuneated ; the lateral feathers very narrow and obtuse ; 

 the two middle pair lengthened and pointed. 



Inhabits India. Mus. Nost. 



Total length nearly 6 inches ; bill, gape f ; front i ; wings 

 1^; tail, base 3 ; middle feathers beyond the others 1 ; tarsus 

 fg. Upper plumage bright olive yellow : ears and lores white : 

 bill and legs pale. 



185. Praticola antho'ides. 

 Above, olive ; beneath, ocracious : each feather 

 striped in the middle with black : lores and eye stripe 

 fulvous : lateral tail feathers with a penultimate black 

 band. 



Inhabits Tasmania. Mus. Nost. 

 Total length 5^ inches ; bill, gape ^ ; front nearly |; wings 2 ; 

 tail, base 2^ ; tarsus fg ; middle toe and claw -^g ; hind toe ^ ; 

 its claw Jg. The black stripes, which are broad on the upper 

 plumage, are very narrow on the under : the tail has a rufous 

 tinge, and the middle feathers have a black central stripe ; they 

 are all graduated and marked as in Orthotomus. 



186. Cryptolopha auricapilla. 

 Olive green above ; yellow beneath : crown of the 

 head fulvous yellow, bordered on each side by a broad 

 black stripe, {fig. 70.) 



Inhabits India. Linnsan Society's Museum, 

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