ACANTHIZA INORNATA. 



(Plain Colored Acanfhizii.) 



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Upper surface, tail, and wings, olive brown ; primaries, dark brown ; a broad band of brownish black near the tips of the tail feathers, 

 followed by a spot of whitish ; under surface, bufty white ; irides, greenish white ; bill and feet, black. 



Length, 3^ inches ; wing, 1| ; tail, 11 ; bill, I ; tarsus, f. 



• This species, which is, perhaps, the most plainly adorned of all the family, is found in South and Western Australia. It is often 

 to be observed upon various trees, such as the Eucalypti and Casuarinse, and also on shrubs and bushes ; the islands along the coast are also 

 frequented by it. Its food consists solely of insects. The nest is formed of grasses, with a lining of feathers, and generally placed in a grass 

 tree or low bush. Eggs, five : size, 7\ by 5| lines ; color, white, tinged with greenish grey. 



ACANTHIZA LINEATA. 



(Striated Acanthiza.) 



Crown, oHve brown, streaked with wliite ; back and wings, olive green ; tail, olive green, crossed by a blackish band near the tip, the extreme 

 tip being olive grey ; throat, whitish, spotted with dark brown ; chest and under surface, dull yellow, slightly ferruginous on the under tail 

 coverts ; irides, brown ; bill and feet, black. 



Length, 8^ inches ; wing, 2 ; tail. If ; bill, | ; tarsus, |. 



This species is found from Queensland to South Australia. Its favorite habitat is wild and rugged country, especially near 

 mountain streams. Its food consists of those minute insects which are to be found on the smaller branches of the twigs and leaves, and 

 which are overlooked by birds of larger size. The nest is dome-shaped, having a small hole near the top. The same is sometimes suspended 

 from a drooping bough, or in the midst of a bundle of creepers, or a low bush. The bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx Lucidus) is parasitical 

 upon this species, and it is remarked that such nests as have been visited by it bear marks of the forcible entrance of the intruder, as the hole 

 is much larger than usual. 



ACANTHIZA PYRRHOPYGIA. 



(Red-rum'jjed AcantJi iza.) 



Upper surface and wings, olive brown; the feathers of the forehead margined wath whitish buff; wings, brown, margined with hghter brown ; 

 throat, white, mottled with black ; upper tail coverts, rufous ; tail, olive, crossed with a broad obscure band of black, and tipped with whitish ; 

 abdomen, whitish ; flanks, pale buff ; bill and feet, blackish brown ; irides, hazel. The sexes are alike. 



Length, 4 inches ; wing, 2 ; tail, If ; bill, i ; tarsus, f . 



South Australia seems to be the peculiar habitat of this lively little bird. The great Murray Scrub is its fkvorite resort, among 

 the smaller trees and shrubs of which locality (so favorable for the collector of ornithological specimens) it is ever on the move, in pursuit of 

 its minute and often beautiful insect prey. 



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