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Forehead yellowish olive ; lores, line beneath the eye and ear- 

 coverts black ; head and all the upper surface dull grey, vv^ith an 

 indistinct line of brown down the centre of each feather, giving the 

 whole a mottled appearance ; wings and tail brown, margined at 

 the base of the external webs with wax -yellow, the tail terminating 

 in white ; throat and under surface dull grey, becoming lighter on 

 the lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; the feathers 

 of the breast with a crescent-shaped mark of light brown near the 

 extremity, and tipped with light grey; irides dark brown; bare 

 skin round the eye, bill, and bare patch on each side of the throat, 

 bright yellow; legs and feet dull reddish-yellow; claws dark brown. 



Total length, 9^ inches ; bill, 1^; wing, 5^; tail, 4|; tarsi, 1^. 



Hab. Western Australia. 



Ptilotis sonorus. Ptil. loris et strigd per oculos ductd, ad colli 



later a, nigris plurnis auricularibus flavis, — et pone has, notd sor- 



dide albd ; — gutture et abdomine pallide fiuvescenti-cinereis, fusco- 



striatis. 



Crown of the head and all the upper greyish olive ; wings and 



tail brown, margined on their external webs with greenish yellow ; 



lores, space around the eye and broad line down the sides of the 



neck black ; ear-coverts pale yellow, behind which is an obscure 



spot of greyish white ; throat and under surface pale yellowish grey 



striated with light brown ; irides dark brown ; bill black ; legs and 



feet greenish grey. The female like the male in colour, but smaller 



in all her dimensions. 



Total length, 7^ inches; bill, 1; wing, 3|; tail, 3^; tarsi, 1. 

 Hab. South and Western Australia. 



Ptilotis cratitius. Ptil. vertice cinereo, — loris, strigd superocu- 

 lari, et plumis auricularibus nigris, — in/rd et pone has, penicillo 

 angusto, et flavo; a rictu per gula latera ducta appendice nudo, 

 corneo, ad marginem inferiorem libero, et belle e gilvo ccerulescente. 



Crown of the head grey ; all the upper surface olive-green ; wings 

 and tail brown, margined with greenish yellow; lores, a large space 

 surrounding the eye and the ear-coverts black, below which is a 

 narrow line of bright yellow ; from the gape, down each side of the 

 throat for five-eighths of an inch, a naked fleshy appendage, free at 

 the lower end, of a beautiful lilac colour and very conspicuous in 

 the living bird ; anterior to this is a tuft of bright yellow feathers ; 

 throat and under surface olive-yellow ; irides and eyelash black ; 

 bill black ; feet blackish brown tinged with olive. 



The female is similar to the male, but smaller. 



Total length, 7 inches; bill, ^; wmg, 2i; tail, 31; tarsi, |^. 



Hab. Interior of South Australia and Kangaroo Island. 



Gltciphila albifrons. Glyc. facie albd ; gutture nigro, albo mi- 

 nute adsperso ; vertice nigro, plumis albo anguste marginatis. 



Forehead, lores and a narrow ring round the eye, and a narrow 

 line running from the angle of the lower mandible white ; crown of 

 tlie head black, each feather slightly margined with white; ear- 



