Genus ACANTHAGENYS, Gould. 



CHARACTERES GENERICI. 



Rostrum caput ccquans, compressum, leviter arcuatum, ad apicem acutum, naribus sub-basalibus, man- 

 dibulce superioris tomiis ad apicem indentatis, et delicate serratis ; plagd nudd a basi mandibulce 

 infra oculos excurrente ; genis infra plagam spinis subrigidis tectis. Alee mediocres ; remige 

 prima brevissimo tertio, quarto, et quinto cequalibus ceterosque excellentibus. Cauda mediocris sub- 

 cequalis. Pedes validi ; digito postico forti, digitumque intermedium anticum excellente ; ex- 

 terno ad intermedium basaliter conjuncto ; unguibus incurvis. 



Hoc genus ad illud Anthochaera dictum appropinquate differt caudd cequali, plagd faciali nudd genisque 

 spinosis. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill equalling the head, compressed, slightly arched, acute at the tip ; nostrils sub-basal, the edges 

 of the upper mandible notched near the tip, and delicately serrated, from the base of the mandible a 

 naked stripe runs below the eyes, and below this the cheeks are covered with stiff spines ; vnngs 

 moderate, the first quill-feather very short, third, fourth, and fifth longest and equal ; tail moderate, 

 nearly equal ; feet robust, hind toe strong and longer than the middle, outer united at its base to the 

 middle, claws hooked. 



This genus approaches Anthochcera, but differs in having the tail equal, a naked facial stripe, and the 

 cheeks spinose. 



ACANTHAGENYS RUFO GULARIS, Gould. 



Capite superiore, dorso, alisque fuscis, plumis ad marginem pallidioribus ; uropygio, teclricibusque 

 caudce albis, in medio fusco tinctis ; strigd post oculos, et ad later a colli nigrescente ; super strigam 

 lateralem colli, lined albescente, fusco adspersd ; setis genarum albis, et infra ad basin mandibulce 

 infer ioris lined plumarum, albo nigroque fasciatarum; guld pectoreque summo pallide rufis ; 

 corpore subtus sordide albo, plumis fusco notatis ; caudd nigrescentifuscd, apice albo ; plagd faciali 

 nudd, rostrique basi aurantiacis ; rostri apice, pedibusque nigris. 



Long. tot. 9| unc. ; rostri, 1J; alee, caudce, 4^; tarsi, 1. 



Crown of the head, back and wings dusky brown, each feather margined with pale brown ; upper 

 tail-coverts with each feather dusky brown in the centre ; stripe behind the eye and on the sides of 

 the neck black, above which on the side of the neck another line of whitish mingled with dusky ; hairs 

 on the cheeks white ; below the lower mandible a line of feathers, which are white crossed by black 

 lines ; throat and fore part of the chest pale rufous ; under surface dirty white, each feather striated 

 with dusky brown ; tail blackish brown, tipped with white ; bare part of the face and base of the bill 

 orange ; point of the bill and feet black. 



Syn. Acanihagenys rufogularis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, Part V., 1837. 



Habitat. Australia : locality, New South Wales. 



