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fine coral-red, passing into an orange tint above and below the eye, 

 and becoming less brilliant on the sides of the face, which, together 

 with the gular pouch, is covered with fine black hairs, so closely set 

 on the latter as almost to conceal the red colouring of the skin ; 

 upper part of the pouch and the bare skin beneath the lower mandible 

 olive-green ; in old males the gular pouch is very pendulous, and 

 forms a conspicuous appendage ; legs and feet purplish black. 



Total length 48 inches ; bill 6^ ; wing 24 ; tail 9J ; tarsi 10£. 



Hab. Australia generally. 



Remark. — A very noble species, which has hitherto been con- 

 founded with the Grus Antigone of India, to which it is nearly allied, 

 but from which it differs in being somewhat smaller in size and in 

 the black colouring of the legs. 



Myiagra concinna. 



The male has the whole of the upper surface, wings, tail, and breast, 

 lead-colour, glossed with green on the head, neck and breast, and 

 becoming gradually paler towards the extremity of the body and on 

 the wings and tail ; primaries slaty black ; secondaries faintly mar- 

 gined with white ; under surface of the wing, abdomen and under 

 tail- coverts white ; bill leaden blue, except at the extreme tip, which 

 is black ; irides brown ; feet blackish grey. 



The female has the head and back lead-colour, without the greenish 

 gloss ; wings and tail brown, fringed with bluish grey, particularly 

 the secondaries ; throat and breast rich rusty red ; abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts white, which colour does not gradually blend with the 

 rusty red of the breast, as in the female of Myiagra plumbea ; upper 

 mandible black ; under mandible pale blue, except at the tip, which 

 is black. 



Total length 5£ inches ; bill \ ; wing 3 ; tail 2 j ; tarsi f . 



Hab. North-western Australia. 



Remark. — Closely allied to M. plumbea and M. nitida. 



Herodias plumiferus. 



The entire plumage pure white ; bill and orbits yellow. 



Total length 24 inches ; bill 4 ; wing 1 1 ; tail 4£ ; tarsi 4£. 



Hab. New South Wales. 



Remark. — This species is distinguished by the greater development 

 of the plumes depending from the chest, and by their structure assi- 

 milating very closely to those of the back. 



Herodias pannosus. 



The entire plumage bluish or slaty black, with the exception of 

 the chin, which is pure white. 



Total length 24 inches ; bill A\ ; wing 101 ; tail 4 ; tarsi 4 \. 



Hab. Port Stephens, New South Wales. 



Remark.— The deep leaden blue colouring of this species renders 

 it a very conspicuous bird. 



Ardetta stagnatilis. 



Crown of the head, occipital crest and a small tuft beneath each 

 eye black ; neck and all the under surface grey, with a vinous tinge, 



