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Inhabits the eastern coast of New Holland. 

 Length five inches and three quarters : the head, 

 neck, back, and scapulars, are of an umbre-brown ; 

 with the feathers of the head appearing like scales, 

 and edged with black : the wings are browri with 

 two transverse bands, the upper being of a nankeen 

 colour, the lower dusky-brown : the rump, the two 

 middle tail-feathers, and the base and tip of the 

 lateral feathers, are deep lead ; the middle of the tail 

 is dusky-brown : the throat and the fore-part of the 

 neck are pure white : the breast and middle of the 

 belly isabella-colour : the flanks and und^r tail-coverts 

 are varied with longitudinal white dashes, with pa- 

 rallel brown stripes. The male is known by a large 

 red spot on the sides of the neck beneath the ears. 



Sp. 2. CI. picumnus. Temm. PL Col. 281. f. 1. 



Qij. fuscus guld malisque albidis ; pectore griseo; corpore infra 



pentiis medio albis marginibus Jiisco longitudinaliter Jusciatis ; 



pileo nucha colloque griseis; alls fuscis fascia, transversa ful- 



vescente. 

 Brown Climacteris with the throat and cheeks whitish ; the breast 



grey : the feathers of the under part of the body white in the 



middle, and longitudinally banded by brown on the edges ; the 



top of the head, nape, and neck grey j the wings brown, with 



a transverse yellowish bar. 



Inhabits Timor, Celebes, and New Holland. 

 Length six inches and a half : the top of the head is 

 deep grey : the nape and the neck clear grey : the 

 back, the wings, and the two middle tail-feathers are 

 of an earthy -brown : a broad band of nankeen-colour 

 passes through all the wing-feathers towards the 



