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226 MATHEWS—Birds of North and North-West JuJrulia 



the base of the bill which is very fleshy; legs and feet, greenish 

 ochre. 



No. 404— S . Length, 10.7 inches. 



Irides, pale grey; skin round the eye, bluish white on the 

 under part, remainder, bright yellow ; bill, bright deep yellow, 

 brightest at the base and gape, which is fleshy, and on the skin, 

 which covers the bones of the bill (that is the forks) ; legs and 



Length, 11. inches (2/11/86). 

 Length, 10. inches (4/11/86). 

 Length, 10. inches (4/11/86). 

 Length, inches (4/11/86). 

 Length, 9.8 inches (4/11/86). 

 Length, 10.4 inches (4/11/86). 



291. Philemon argenticeps argenticeps. Silvery-crowned 



Friar Bird. 



Tropidorhynchus argenticeps (Gould), Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 (Lond.), 1839, p. 144, 1840. Port Essington, Northern Terri- 

 tory. 



' No. 160— 6. Length, 13.5 inches. Palmerston ( 8/5/86 ) . 



Bill, black ; face tinged with bluish lead ; legs, lead colour. 



293. Microphalemon orientalis occidentalis. Western Yel- 



low throated Friar Bird. 



Philemon occidentalis (Ramsay), Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 

 Ser II., Vol. II., p. 676, 1888. Derby, North-west Australia. 



No. 25— $ . Length, 11.7 inches (18/5/86) . 



Irides, black; bill, black; naked skin, bluish black; legs, 

 grey. This bird imitates the notes of the Bower Bird exactly. 

 296. Myrafra javanica subrufescens. North-western Bush 



Lark. 



Mirafra javanica subrufescens (Mathews), Nov. Zool., Vol. 

 XVIII., p. 426, 1912. North-west Australia. 



No. 130. Length, 5.8 inches (15/6/86). 



Irides, brown; upper mandible, brown, yellowish white at 

 the base and along the cutting edges ; lower, fleshy white at the 

 base, brown at the tips ; legs and feet, fleshy white. 



No. 229. Length, 5.8 inches (7/7/86). 



Irides, brown. 

 298. Taeniopygia castanotis roebucki. Dark Chestnut-eared 



Finch. 



Zonaeginthus castonotis roebucki (Mathews), Austra Av. 

 Rec. Vol. I., p. 193. Roebuck Bay, North-west Australia. 



No. 215— S . Length, 4.4 inches (2/7/13) . 



