AND ITS GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 201 



Spec, in Mus. Brit. 



a, b. Australia (/. Gould), c, ad. Australia (Cooper), d, ^ ad. South Australia {Sir G. Grey). 

 €,juv. Perth, Western Australia (/. Gould). f,g, 6, ? ad. Tasmania [Antarctic Expedi- 

 tion), h, i, k, ad. Tasmania [Ronald Gunn). I, pull. Georgetown, Tasmania (/. Gould). 



16. Artamus minor. 



Arfamus minor, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xvii. p. 298 (1817); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 285 

 (1845) ; Gould, B. Austr. folio, ii. pi. 28 (18 18) ; Reichenb. Vog. NeuhoU. p. 168 (1848) ; 

 Bp. Consp. i. p. 344 (1850) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 146 (1865) ; Ramsay, Ibis, 

 1866, p. 327 ; Gray, Hand-list B. i. p. 290. no. 4285 (1869) ; Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, 

 p. 584. 



Ocypterus fuscatus, Valenc. Mem. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. vi. p. 74, pi. 9. fig. 1 (1820). 



Leptopteryx minor, Wagler, Syst. Av. Leptopteryx, sp. 6 (1827). 



Ocypterus minor, Gould, Synopsis B. Austr. part i. (1837). 



Ad. minimus : chocolatino-brunneus, facie laterali et colli lateribus pileo concoloribus : subtiis 

 magis rufescens vix castaneus, linea angusta frontali mento lorisque nigris : uropygio imo, 

 supracaudalibus et subcaudalibus nigris : alis Cauda que plumbeo -nigris, rectricibus intus ad 

 apicem albis, duabus centralibus et rectrice extimS, baud albo terminatis, concoloribus : sub- 

 alaribus pallide cervino-brunneis : rostro pulchre violescenti-cyaneo, apicaliter saturatiore : 

 pedibus vix nigris : iride nigricante. Long. tot. 5"9, culmen 0"55, alee 4'55, caudse 2-65, 

 tai'si 0'5. 



Juv. similis adultis, sed plumis ochrascenti maculatis, corpore subtus fasciato, maculis caudae api- 

 calibus minoribus et griseo lavatis. 



Mr. Gould writes as follows : — " I found the Artamus minor abundant on 

 the Lower Namoi, particularly on the plains thinly studded with the Acacia 

 pendula and other low trees in the neighbourhood of Gummel-Gummel, 

 where it had evidently been breeding, as 1 observed numerous young ones 

 whose primaries were not sufficiently developed to admit of their performing 

 a migration of any distance ; besides which, they were constantly being fed 

 by the parents, who were hawking about in the air over and around the 

 trees, while the young were quietly perched close to each other on a dead 

 twig. I have received two specimens from Port Essington ; and there are 



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