EUDliOMIAS AUSTRALIS. 



(Australian Dottrell.) 



EoEEHEAD and upper surface, light sandy buff, with brown in the centre of each feather ; primaries, brownish blacl^, the shafts of the same 

 sandy buff, and all but the first four feathers broadly margined with the same color ; throat, buiFy white, below which is a crescent-shapod 

 mark of blackish brown; chest, flanks, and under surface of the wings, buff", passing into reddish chestnut on the abdomen; vent and under 

 tail coverts, white ; tail, brownish black, the centre feathers margined with buff", the lateral ones with white ; bill, dark olive brown ; feet, 

 yellowish brown. 



Length, 9 inches ; wing, 5 ; tail, 2f ; bill, f ; tarsus, 1|. 



This bird inhabits the low hills and plains of the interior. It runs very fast, and sometimes makes its appearance on the plains 

 of Adelaide in considerable numbers, having apparently migrated from the north. 



ERYTHROGONYS CINCTUS. 



(Banded Bed-knee.) 



Head, lores, ear coverts, back of the neck, and chest, black ; a smaU patch under the eye, tliroat, chest, side of neck, centre of abdomen, and 

 under tail coverts, white, the latter spotted with dark brown; back, centre of wings, and tertiaries, olive, tinged with brown; tips of 

 secondaries and of the outer webs of the sis adjoining primaries, white ; rump and two middle tail feathers, olive ; the remaining feathers, 

 white; flanks, chesnut ; thighs and tarsi, purplish red; knee, purplish grey; biU, red at the base, and tipped with black; irides, dark brown. 

 The sexes are alike. 



Length, 7 inches ; wing, 4i ; tail, 1\ ; bill, f ; tarsus, li ; middle toe, |. 



The Banded Eed-knee visits the interior of New South Wales, South Australia, and the southern parts of Queensland in the 

 summer season, resorting to swamps and reedy waterholes, where it feeds in company with other birds of similar habits. It is by no means 

 common anywhere. It displays much grace and agility in its movements, and is said by some to be of a tame and familiar disposition. Such, 

 however, is not the experience of collectors in general, who assert that it is with great dif&culty they were enabled to obtain specimens. A 

 fine specimen was shot in 1865, at Gammie Swamp, iii i\xe neighborhood of Ipswich, by Mr. .L T. Jameson. The nest and eggs are as 

 yet unknown. 



