lately -described Australian Birds. 
609 
(cf. Sharpe, Cat. B. vii. p. 109, 1883). At the same time it 
must be allowed that in Schoenicola the bill is shorter and 
stronger, the tarsi longer, and tbe feet larger, so that there 
are, perliaps, sufficient grounds for maintaining the genus 
Eremiornis for tbe Australian representative of this group. 
One of the most remarkable features in Eremiornis (which, 
however, it shares with Schoenicola) is the enormous length 
of the under tail-coverts, some of which extend beyond 
Fig-. 19. 
Under surface of the tail of Eremiornis, shewing the elongated 
under tail-coverts. 
the extremity of the outer pair of rectrices. They carry 
a broad pale band at their ends, as shown in the accom- 
panying figure (fig. 19). The rectrices are ten in number, as 
in most of the other Bradypterine Sylvians"^. The upper 
tail-coverts, as will be seen by the coloured figure, are also 
much elongated, but this is a common feature in the 
Bradypterines. 
The figure is taken from a specimen obtained by Mr. Carter 
at Point Cloates on February 20, 1902, and forwarded 
* I agree with Dr. Sharpe (Cat. B. vii. p. 93) that the Bradypteri 
are alhed to the Reed- Warblers, and should he placed among- the 
Sylvians. 
