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Glyciphila ? ocularis. Crown of the head, all the upper surface, wings, and tail dark olive brown, 

 passing into yellowish brown on the rump, and bases of the tail-feathers ; primaries and secondaries 

 margined with wax yellow ; immediately behind the eye a very small patch of glossy brownish yellow 

 feathers, the anterior portion of which is silvery ; throat and chest greyish brown ; abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts olive grey ; bill and feet dark blackish brown. 



Total length, 5J inches ; bill, f ; wing, 2f ; tail, 2^ ; tarsi, }. 



Habitat. Van Diemen's Land. 



Glyciphila ? subocularis. Crown of the head, all the upper surface, wings, and tail light olive 

 brown, with a tinge of yellow on the upper tail-coverts ; primaries, secondaries, and basal portion of 

 the tail-feathers margined with olive yellow ; immediately behind the eye an exceedingly small patch 

 of brownish yellow feathers ; throat and chest light greyish brown, tinged with yellow; the remainder 

 of the under surface light olive grey ; bill and feet brown. 



Total length, 5 inches ; bill, j ; wing, 2J ; tail, 2^ ; tarsi, f . 



Habitat. New South Wales. 



Closely allied to the last, from which it differs in its more olive colouring, and in its smaller size. 



^Egialitis ? canus. Forehead, stripe over the eye, sides of the face, throat, chest, and all the under 

 surface white ; crown of the head, all the upper surface, and an irregular band across the upper part 

 of the chest, greyish brown ; primaries dark brown, with white shafts, and some of the inner ones mar- 

 gined on their outer webs at the base with white ; tail brown, each feather broadly margined, espe- 

 cially the outer ones, with white ; bill and feet black, tinged with olive. 



Total length, 7 J inches ; bill, J ; wing, 3J ; tail, 2J ; tarsi, 1^. 



Habitat. New South Wales. 



HiEMAxopus Austral as i anus. Head, neck, breast, back, wings, and the tail-feathers, for three 

 parts of their length from the tip, deep greenish black ; the tips of the wing-coverts, abdomen, rump, 

 upper and under tail-coverts, and the bases of the tail-feathers pure white ; bill deep orange ; 

 feet red. 



Total length, 17 inches ; bill, 3J ; wing, 10 j; tail, 4 J ; tarsi, 2 J. 

 Habitat. New South Wales. 



Nearly allied to the Hcematopus ostralegus of England. 



RHYNCHiEA Australis. Stripe from the bill down the centre of the head to the nape pale buff ; 

 behind each eye a short stripe of white ; back of the neck chestnut, crossed with indistinct narrow bars 

 of greenish brown ; crown dark brown ; sides of the face, and the sides and forepart of the neck cho- 

 colate ; chin white ; back olive green tinged with grey, and marbled with dark brown ; scapularies 

 blotched on their external webs with deep buff ; wing-coverts olive green, crossed by numerous fine 

 irregular bars of black ; tertiaries olive green tinged with grey, crossed by irregular bars and nume- 

 rously sprinkled with black ; three outer primaries dark brown, crossed on their outer webs with 

 broad irregular patches of deep buff, and sprinkled with grey on the inner ; the remainder of the pri- 

 maries and the secondaries grey, crossed by numerous narrow irregular lines of black, and spotted with 

 white surrounded with black ; rump and tail grey like the secondaries, but spotted with both white and 

 buff, each of which colours are bounded with black; breast and all the under surface white, with a 

 large irregular patch of olive green, narrowly barred with black, on each side of the chest ; bill reddish 

 brown ; feet dark brown. 



Total length, 8^ inches; bill, 2; wing, 5 J ; tail, 2J; tarsi, 



Habitat. New South Wales. 



This bird differs from the Chinese species, to which it is nearly allied, by its extremely short toes and 

 larger wing. 



Numenius Austral as i anus. Crown of the head and back of the neck blackish brown, each fea- 

 ther margined with buff ; back blackish brown, each feather irregularly blotched with reddish buff on 

 the margins ; wing-coverts blackish brown, margined with greyish white ; tertiaries brown, irregularly 

 blotched on the margins with lighter brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts dark brown, barred across 

 the margins with greyish buff ; tail light brown, crossed with bars of dark brown ; greater coverts 

 blackish brown, slightly tipped with white ; first five primaries dark brown with white stems, the re- 

 mainder and the secondaries crossed by irregular interrupted bars of white ; sides of the face, throat, 

 and all the under surface pale buff, with a fine line of blackish brown down the centre of each feather ; 

 bill yellowish brown at the base, blackish brown at the tip ; feet olive. 



Total length, 20 inches ; bill, 5 j ; wing, 1 1 ; tail, 4^ ; tarsi, 3 J. 



Habitat. New South Wales. 



Nearly allied to, but differs from Numenius arquata, in the entire absence of the white rump ; it is also 

 rather less in size. 



