ERYTHACIX.-K. 



most bold and active manner. They possess a peculiar and plaintive song, resembling that of the robin ; and, like this 

 latter bird, they sometimes frequent the abodes of man during the winter. The nest is composed of dry grasses, strips 

 of bark, mosses, and lichen, all bound firmly together with cobwebs and vegetable fibres, and lined interiorly with 

 feathers, wool, or hair. It is usually placed in a hollow of a decayed tree, or a cavity in the bark, and sometimes in a 

 fork of the branches a few feet from the ground. The eggs are three or four in number. 



1. P. multicolor (Gmel.) Swains. Lath. Gen. Syn. vi. pi. 100., 

 Swains. Zool. 111. n. s. pi. 36., Lewin, B. of N. Holl. pi. 17. — Mus- 

 cicapa erythrogastra Lath. Gould, B. of Austr. pi. ; Petroica Boo- 

 bang Less. ? 



2. P. phcenicea Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1836. p. 105., Gould, Syn. of 

 Austr. B. pi. f. (head), B. of Austr. pi. 



3. P. modesta Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1837. p. 147- 



4. P. pulchella Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1839. P- 142. 



5. P. Goodenovii (Vig. & Horsf.) Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn. pi. 8. 

 f. 2., Gould, Syn. Austr. B. pi. f. (head), B. of Austr. pi. 



6. P. cucullata (Lath.) Lamb. Icon. ined. iii. 14. — Petroica 

 bicolor Swains. Zool. 111. n. s. pi. 43., Gould, B. of Austr. pi. 



7. V.fusca Gould, B. of Austr. pi. 



8. P. erythrogaster (Lath.) Lamb. Icon. ined. iii. pi. 30. — Saxi- 

 cola rhodinigastra Drop. ; Muscicapa Lathami Vigors, Zool. Journ. 

 i.pl. IS., Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn. pi. 8. ; Type of Erythrodryas 

 Gould (1842). 



9. P. coccinogaster (Lath.) Lamb. Icon. ined. iii. t 31., Lath. 

 Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. pi. 134. 



10. ? P. rufiventris (Vieill.) N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvii.p. 12. 



11. ? P. rufieollis (Vieill.) N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvii.p. 13. 



12. P. rosea Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1839- p. 141., B. of Austr. pi. 



13. P. macrocephala (Gmel.) G. R. Gray. — Turdus minutus 

 Forst. Desc. Anim. p. 83., Icon. ined. 149-, Lath. Gen. Syn. pi. 

 55. ; Pachycephala ? australis Steph. ; Miro Forsterorum G. B. 

 Gray. 



14. P. Dieffenbachii G. R. Gray, Voy. Ereb. & Terr. Zool. Birds, 

 pi. 6. f. 1. 



15. P. toitoi (Garn.) G. R. Gray, Voy. de la Coqu. Zool. i. 590., 

 Ois. t. 15. f. 3. 



16. P. albifrons (Gmel.) G. R. Gray, Voy. Ereb. & Terr. Birds, 

 pi. 6. f. 2. — Turdus ochrotarsus Forst. Desc. Anim. p. 82., Icon. 

 ined. 148. 



17. ? P. australis (Sparrm.) G. R. Gray, Mus. Carls, t. 69. — 

 Muscicapa longipes Gam. Voy. de la Coqu. Ois. t. 19- f. 1- ; Myio- 

 thera novfe zealandis Less. ; Type of Miro Less. (1831). 



Drymodes Gould.* 



Bill moderate, strong, with the culmen curved to the tip, which is slightly emarginated ; the sides 

 gradually compressed ; the lateral margins slightly curved, and the gonys long and ascending ; the 

 nostrils basal and lateral, placed in a membranous groove, with the opening longitudinal. Wings rather 

 short and rounded, with the fifth and sixth quills equal and longest. Tail long, broad, and rounded. 

 Tarsi much longer than the middle toe, and covered in front with an entire scale. Toes moderate, the 

 outer toe rather longer than the inner, and united at the base ; the hind toe moderate and slender ; the 

 claws moderate, curved, and acute. 



The type of this genus is only found in South Australia. Mr. Gould informs us that it is a quiet and inactive 

 species, resorting much to the ground, over which, and among the underwood and low stunted bushes, it passes with 

 great ease ; it appears rarely to take wing, but to depend for security upon its dexterity in hopping away under the 

 dense underwood of the most scrubby parts ; he has occasionally observed it to mount to the most elevated part of a 

 low bush, and there pour forth a sharp monotonous whistling note. When on the ground, and sometimes when perched 

 on a twig, it elevates its tail considerably. 



D. brunneopygus Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1840. p. 170., B. of Austr. pi. 



Established by Mr. Gould in 1840 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 170.). 



