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(47) 56. Of course there is some variation from these measure- 

 ments. 



Hob. — Myrniong, Victoria, on Acacia estrophiolata, F. v. 

 Mueller. Differs from the other Australian species by the seven- 

 segmented antennae, and in other details. Collected by Mr. J. 

 Lidgett (No. 25). 



Chrysomphalus rossi (Mask.), var. Victorice, Ckll, n. var. 



Female scale like 7-ossi in size and shape, but rougher and paler 

 (more brown), with the exuviae covered by whitish secretion. (I 

 have scales of C. rossi on Araucaria which approach this quite 

 closely.) 



Lobes rounded, not at all tricuspid, as they are in typical rossi. 

 Circumgenital glands with 8 to 10 orifices in the anterior lateral 

 groups, 5 to 6 in the posterior lateral. 



Hab. — Maddingly Park, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, on Euca- 

 lyptus globulus. Collected by Mr. J. Lidgett (No. 27). The 

 bark of the eucalyptus boiled in caustic soda gives a very fine 

 deep claret colour, which deepens to a pinkish-brown. 



Mesilla Park, New Mexico, U.S.A., 6th April, 1899. 



NOTES ON THREE PHASES IN THE PLUMAGE OF 

 POMATORRHINUS SUPERCILIOSUS, V. and H. 



By Robert Hall. 

 [Read before the Field Naturalists' Glub of Victoria, 10th July, 1899.) 

 I RECENTLY drew the attention of members of this Club 

 (Victorian Naturcdist, xvi., p. 28) to a specimen of Babbler I 

 had received from Western Australia, which had been collected 

 near Kalgoorlie, some 200 miles inland, bordering on the great 

 Victoria desert. The plumage of this bird attracted my attention 

 as having something strange about it. Subsequently three more 

 skins, an adult male, an adult female, and a young bird, were 

 forwarded to me by Mr. Lindsay Cameron. 



The fledgling enables me now to make a comparison between 

 these skins and that of the Pomatorrhinus superciliosus of the 

 eastern colonies. In all cases I find the western bird is quite 

 different in the colour of the throat, which is cream coloured, 

 with a flush of flesh colour, while ours (the eastern) is pure 

 white ; and, secondly, there is a greater depth of colour in the 

 sombre hue, for while our bird is greyish-brown, in all but one 

 of my specimens, the western bird is brownish-black in all 

 specimens. The young of the western bird has the two central 

 tail feathers blacker than those of the adult eastern bird, which, 

 according to Gould, are dark brown ; in the adult western bird 

 the same feathers are dense black, while in the eastern bird they 

 are brown. In this Kalgoorlie form the upper tail coverts are 

 brownish-black to black, compared with the brown to brownish- 



