ORDER PASSERES. 467 



uniform ; beneath reddish white, spotless ; tail short, 

 graduated, blackish brown ; side-feather black spot at 

 end ; length four inches. Portugal. India, Gen. 

 Hardwicke. 



Sylvia Macroura, Gml. Le Ca- 

 pocier. Vail. O. A. t. 129. 130. PI. Enl. t. 752. f. 2. 



Brown, beneath yellowish white, black spotted ; eye- 

 brows white ; tail, wedge-shaped, long ; length six 

 inches. Cape of Good Hope. 



Long-tailed Warhler, Sylvia Longicauda, Gml. 



Greenish olive ; crown reddish ; quills brown ; tail 

 wedge-shaped. China. 



Malurus Galactoides, Temm. PI. 

 Col. t. 65. 



Reddish brown, fuscous brown streaked ; beneath 

 whitish ; shaft of tail-feathers brown. New Holland. 



A Megalurus of Vigors and Horsfield appears to 

 unite the two groups. 



Malurus Clamans, Ruppel. Atlas, 

 t. 2. f. 1. 



Forehead and crown varied black and white ; body 

 above helvola, beneath yellowish ; wing-coverts black, 

 white limb J length 4", tarsus 9". 



Malurus Gracilis, Ruppel. Atlas, 

 t. 2. f. 6. Sylvia Gracilis, Licht. Lat. Savigny, 

 Egypt, t. 5. f. 4. 



Above olive-gray, beneath whitish ; crown and nape 

 black, with obscure, oblong sooty spots; length 5". 

 Egypt. (The feathers are dark sooty, with broad pale 

 margins.) 



