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and upper tail-coverts barred with brown and white ; tail pale brown 

 barred with dark brown ; chin, lower part of the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts white ; bill blackish horn-colour, fleshy at the base ; feet 

 grayish black. 



Total length, 15 inches; biU, 3; wing, 9^; tail, 3; tarsi, 2^. 



Hab. South coast of Australia. 



Nearly allied to N. Phceopus but distinguished from that species 

 by the browTi colouring of the rump. 



NuMENius MiNUTus. Num. uropygio tectricibusque caudce intense 

 fuscis; marginibus plumarum albo-guttatis ; corpore subtils luteolo. 



Forehead dark brown mottled with buff; lores and line behind 

 the eye buff; back, sides and front of the neck buff, with a fine line 

 of brown down the centre of each feather ; all the upper surface 

 blackish brown, with a series of triangular spots round the margins 

 of the feathers of a sandy buff; shoulders, primaries and secondaries 

 blackish brown, the latter with white shafts ; rump and tail-coverts 

 dark browni spotted with white on the margins ; tail grayish brown 

 barred with black ; chin white ; under surface light buff ; flanks and 

 under surface of the vidng deep buff, regularly barred with arrow-, 

 shaped marks of brown ; irides black ; bill fleshy at the base, olive 

 brown at the tip ; feet blueish flesh-colour. 

 Total length, 12 inches; bill, IJ; wing, 7; tail, 3; tarsi, 1^. 



Hab. New South Wales. 



This is one of the smallest species of the genus. I never but 

 once saw a flock of this bird ; out of which I killed two, on the race- 

 course at Maitland on the Upper Hunter. 



PoRPHYRio BELLUS. Povpli. capits, collo et corpore subtiis intense 

 cceruleis; facie, gutture et pectore virescenti-caruleis ; dorso, alis 

 cauddque efusco nigris. 



Head, neck and all the under surface deep blue ; sides of the face, 

 front of the throat and chest greenish blue; back, wings and tail 

 brownish black ; shoulder and edge of the wing and outer margins 

 of the primaries greenish blue ; under tail-coverts white ; irides 

 bright red ; bill red ; legs grass-green, except the knees, lower part 

 of the tarsi and inside of the feet, which are dark greenish gray. 



Total length, 18 inches; bill. If; wing 10^; tail, 4^; tarsi, 3^. 



Hab. Western Australia. 



Otis Australasianus. Ot. vertice et occipite nigris ; capitis la- 

 teribus, collo et pectore e cinereo-albis fusco adspersis ; singulis 

 plumis crebre lineis tratisversis fuscis et tortuosis vel fractis stri- 

 atis ; pectore fascid nigrd haud aquali ornate. 

 Crown of the head and occiput black ; sides of the head, the neck 

 and breast grayish white, each feather crossed by numerous fine zig- 

 zag bands of brown, giving those parts a freckled appearance ; 

 wing-coverts black largely tipped vnth white ; aU the upper surface, 

 wings and upper tail-coverts brown very minutely freckled with 

 reddish brown ; some of the feathers towards the hinder parts of the 

 body tinged with gray ; tail gray, crossed near the centre by an in- 



