CERTHIADiE. 



185 



Inhabits the eastern coast of New Holland. 

 Length five inches and three quarters: the head, 

 neck, back, and scapulars, are of an umbre-brown ; 

 with the feathers of the head appearing like scales, 

 and edged with black : the wings are brown with 

 two transverse bands, the upper being of a nankeen 

 colour, the lower dusky-brown : the rump, the two 

 middle tail-feathers, and the base and tip of the 

 lateral feathers, are deep lead ; the middle of the tail 

 is dusky-brown : the throat and the fore-part of the 

 neck are pure white : the breast and middle of the 

 belly isabella-colour : the flanks and under tail-coverts 

 are varied with longitudinal white dashes, with pa- 

 rallel brown stripes. The male is known by a large 

 red spot on the sides of the neck beneath the ears. 



Sp. 2. CI. picumnus. Temm. PI. Col. 281. f. 1. 



Cl. fusciis guld malisque albidis; pectore griseo; corpore infra 



jpennis medio albis marginibus fusco longitudinaliter Jasciatis; 



pileo nucha colloque griseis ; alls Juscis fascia, transversa Jul- 



vescente. 



Brown Climacteris with the throat and cheeks whitish ; the breast 

 grey ; the feathers of the under part of the body white in the 

 middle^ and longitudinally banded by brown on the edges ; the 

 top of the head, nape, and neck grey 3 the wings brown, with 

 a transverse yellowish bar. 



Inhabits Timor, Celebes, and New Holland. 

 Length six inches and a half : the top of the head is 

 deep grey : the nape and the neck clear grey : the 

 back, the wings, and the two middle tail-feathers are 

 of an earthy-brown : a broad band of nankeen-colour 

 passes through all the wing-feathers towards the 



