224 SYLVIADiE. 



Ashy-red Soft-tail, longitudinally dashed with black; beneath 

 whitish isabella colour; with the throat white; the tail-fea- 

 thers (the two middle excepted) with a black spot towards 

 the tip. 



Inhabits New Holland. The middle of all the 

 feathers of the upper parts of the plumage is adorned 

 with a large black longitudinal dash ; and the edges 

 are ash, tinged more or less with reddish : the same 

 colour, but more brilliant, forms a broad edging 

 to the quills, and is expanded over the middle tail- 

 feathers : the remainder of the latter are ashy-brown, 

 with a large black spot placed at some distance from 

 their tip, which is black : the throat is white : the 

 rest of the under parts is of a whitish-isabella colour : 

 the beak and the legs are yellow. 



Sp. 3. Ma. gularis. 



Muscicapa malachura. Staph, t'. x. p. 407. La Queue gazee. 

 Lc Vailk Ois.d'Afriq. iii. 130./ 2.— New Holland. 

 Sp. 4. Ma. pectoralis. 



Turdus brachypterus. Steph. v. x. p. 221. — New Holland. 



Sp. 5. Ma. magnificus. Temm. 



Sp. G. Ma. marginalis. Temm. PI. Col. 65. f. 2. 



Ma. supra Jiiscus, pennarum marginibus pallidioribus aut rufes- 



ccntibus, infra, guld, superciliisque albis ; pectore abdotnineque 

 fusco maculato. 

 Soft- tail, above brown, with the edges of the feathers paler or 



reddish ; the under parts, throat, and eyebrows white ; the 



breast and abdomen spotted with brown. 



Inhabits Java. Tail very long and much wedged ; 

 the outer feathers on each side being one inch and 

 nine lines (French) long, and three of the middle four 

 inches and a half: the feathers of the back and wings 



