The forehead, lores, a narrow ring round the eye, and a line running from tin- angle of the 

 lower mandible, white ; brown of the head, black, each leather slightly margined with white ; ear-coverts, 

 grev ; all the upper surface, dark brown, irregularly margined with Light brown, producing a mottled 

 appearance; wings and tail, brown, the primaries margined externally with yellow: chin and throat, 

 brownish-black, speckled with white: chest and abdomen, white, striped with blackish-brown on the 

 Hank-- : irides, brown : naked space behind the eye. blood-red : bill, legs and feet, black. 



Total length, .">',' inches; bill, | inch: wing, •"« J inches: tail, 2| inches; tarsi, | inch. 



Habitats: Interior of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. 



GLYCIPHILA FASCIATA (Gould). 



FASCIA TED ll< WE Y EA TEE. 



rilllK Cobourg Peninsula is the home of the present species, where it is sparingly distributed, generally 

 I in families of about twelve. Jt is usually seen on the branches of the Melaleuca (tea-tree), on 

 the (lowers of which it sometimes feeds, as well as on insects and honey. 



It has a loud shrill note, which is frequently repeated. 



The crown of the head is brownish-black, with a small crescent of white at the extremity of 

 each feather ; feathers of the back very dark brow n, margined w ith butty-brown ; wings and tail, dark 

 brown, fringed with light brown : sides of the face, throat and under surface, white ; from the angle 

 of the mouth down the side of the neck a narrow stripe of brownish-black : chest crossed by a 

 number of semi-circular brownish-black fascia' ; Hanks and under tail-coverts, light buff, the former with 

 a stripe of brownish-black down each feather; irides, reddish-brown; bill, grey; legs and feet, brown. 



Total length, 4| inches: bill. | inch: wing, 'J| inches: tail, '!{ inches: tarsi, § inch. 



Habitat : The Cobourg Peninsula, on the north coast of Australia. 



