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their tips, the basal half pure white ; bill and irides blackish brown ; 

 feet reddish brown. 



Total length, 101 inches; bill, |; wing, 5^; tail, 5; tarsi, |. 



Hab. Western Australia. 



Allied to the members of the genus Peristera. 



EuDROMius AtJSTKALis. Etidr . colore cervino vel luteolo ; abdo- 

 mine medio castaneo ; parte i?iferiore nee non crisso albis. 



Forehead and all the upper surface hght sandy buff, the centres 

 of the feathers being brown ; primaries brownish black with sandy- 

 buff shafts, and all but the first four broadly margined with the 

 same ; throat huffy white, below which a crescent-shaped mark of 

 blackish brown ; chest, flanks and under surface of the wing buff, 

 passing into reddish chestnut on the abdomen, beyond which the 

 vent and under tail-coverts are white; tail brownish black, the cen- 

 tre feather margined with buff, the outer ones with white; bill 

 dark olive brown ; feet yellowish brown. 



Total length, 7J inches; bill, |; wing, 5\; tail, 2^; tarsi. If. 



Hab. Interior of South AustraHa. 



This is a higlily interesting species, since it is the only bird ap- 

 proaching the form of the British Dottrel found in any part of the 

 world. This rare species has been sent me by my friend Captain 

 Sturt, who procured it during his late expedition into the interior 

 of AustraUa, behind Adelaide. 



Rhipidura isura. Rhip. corpora supra sordide fusco ; caudm rectri- 

 cum utrinque externd albo extrinsecus marginatd et late termi- 

 natd, proximd albo ad apicem notatu, iterumque proximd apicem 

 versus lined albd tenuissimd. 



All the upper surface dull brown ; wings and tail darker brown, 

 the outer feather of the latter on each side margined externally and 

 largely tipped M'ith white, the next having a large irregular spot of 

 \yhite at the tip, and the next with a minute line of white near the 

 tip ; chin and under surface huffy-white, wdth an indication of a 

 dark brovni band across the chest ; bill and feet black. 



Total length, 8 inches; bill, |; wing, 3f ; tail, 3^; tarsi, l^t. 



Hab. North-west coast of Australia. 



In the collection of his Excellency Captain Grey and Mr. Dring. 



Rather a large species, and is distinguished from the other mem- 

 bers of the genus by the sombre hue of its plumage and the square 

 form of its taU. 



PsiLOPUs cuLicivoRUS. Psi. abdotuine crissoque albis; rectricibus 

 caudcE, duabus intermediis exceptis, albo ad basin late fasciatis . 



All the upper surface olive-brown ; wings brown margined with 

 olive ; two centre tail-feathers brown ; the remainder white, crossed 

 by an irregular band of black and tipped with brown, the ])and upon 

 all but the external feathers, so blending with the brown at the tip 

 that the white between merely forms a spot on the inner web ; lores 

 blackish-brown ; line over the eye, throat and chest light gray, pass- 

 ing into buff on the flanks, and into white on the centre of the ab- 



