OCYPTERUS MINOR. 



Fig. 1. 



Oc. capite, dor so abdomineque rufescenti-brunneis ; alis, uropygio crissoque ccerulescenti-nigris ; rec- 

 tricibus nigris, ad apicem albis, duabus intermediis nec non externis exceptis ; rostro rufescenti, ad 

 apicem late plumbeo ; pedibus plumbeis. 



Long. tot. 6 unc. ; rostri, f ; alee, 4£ ; caudce, 2f ; tarsi, -J. 



Whole of the head, back, and abdomen chocolate brown ; wings, rump, and under tail-coverts bluish 

 black ; tail deep bluish black, all the feathers except the two outer and two middle ones tipped with 

 white ; bill reddish brown at the base and bluish at the tip ; feet lead colour. 



The sexes are alike in the colouring of their plumage. 



Syn. Artamus minor, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., p. 298. 



Ocypterus f meatus, Valenc. Mem. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat., torn. vi. p. 24. t. 9. fig. 1. 

 Leptopteryx minor, Wagl. Syst. Av., sp. 6. 



Habitat. Australia : locality, interior of New South Wales. 



OCYPTERUS SUPERCILIOSl'S, Gould. 

 Fig. 2. 



Oc. facie, guld pectoreque nigrescenti-griseis ; lined super ciliari alba ad basin excurrente ; sum mo 

 capite, corpore superiore alisque fuliginosis ; abdomine crissoque castaneis ; rectricibus griseo- 

 fuliginosis, ad apicem albescentibus, intermediis duabus exceptis ; rostro plumbeo, ad apicem nigro ; 

 pedibus plumbeis. 

 Long. tot. 7 unc. ; rostri, 1 ; alee, 4f ; caudce, 3 ; tarsi, f . 



Face, throat, and chest greyish black ; crown of the head, all the upper surface, and wings deep 

 fuliginous grey ; a white mark commences at the nostrils and passes over each eye ; abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts chestnut red ; tail fuliginous grey, all the feathers except the two outer ones on each 

 side tipped with greyish white ; bill blue at the base, black at the tip ; feet lead colour. 



The sexes are alike in the colouring of their plumage. 



Ocypterus super ciliosus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, Part V., 1837. 

 Habitat. Australia : locality, interior of New South Wales. 



OCYPTERUS ALBOVITTATUS, Valenc. 

 Fig. 3. 



Oc. capite, collo corporeque toto griseo-fuliginosis ; alis ccerulescenti-nigris ; remigis secundi, tertii, et 

 quarti pogoniis externis albis ; rectricibus ccerulescenti-nigris, ad apicem albis, intermediis duabus 

 exceptis; rostro plumbeo, ad apicem nigro ; pedibus plumbeis. 



Long. tot. 7- unc. ; rostri, f ; aim, 5 ; caudce, 3 ; tarsi, f . 



Head, neck, and the whole of the body fuliginous grey ; wings dark bluish black, the external edges 

 of the second, third, and fourth primaries white ; tail bluish black, all the feathers except the two 

 middle ones largely tipped with white ; bill blue with a black tip ; feet lead colour. 



The sexes are alike in the colouring of their plumage. 



Syn. Turdus sordidus, Lath. Ind. Orn., Suppl. p. xliii. 



Ocypterus albovittatus, Cuv. Regn. Anim., torn. iv. t. 3. fig. 6. — Valenc. Mem. du Mus. d'Hist. 



Nat., torn. vi. p. 23. No. 3. t. 8. fig. 2. 

 Artamus lineatus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., p. 297. 



albovittatus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 210. 



Leptopteryx albovittatus, Wagl. Syst. Av., sp. 5. 



Sordid Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 186. — Shaw, Zool., vol. x. p. 238 — Lath. Gen. 

 Hist., vol. v. p. 131. 



Habitat. Australia : locality, interior of New South W T ales. 



