OCYPTERUS MINOR. 
Fig. 1. 
Oc. capite, dorso ahdomineque mfescenti-brunneis ; alis, uropygio crissoque ccemlescenti-nigris ; rec- 
tricibus nigris, ad apicem albis, duabus intermediis nec non externis exceptis ; rostro mfescenti, ad 
apicem late plutnbeo ; pedibus plumbeis. 
Long. tot. 6 unc. ; rostri, ^ ; alee, 4^ ; caudcB, 2^ ; tarsi, ^. 
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 j^lumage. 
Syn. Artanms minor, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., p. 298. 
Ocypterus fuscatus, 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 snperciliari alba ad basin excurrente ; siinimo 
capite, corpore superiore alisque fuliginosis ; abdomine crissoque castaneis ; rectricibus griseo- 
fuliginosis, ad apicem albescentibus, intermediis duabus exceptis ; rostro plumbeo, ad apicem nigra ; 
pedibus plumbeis. 
Long. tot. 7 unc. ; rostri, 1 ; alee, 4| ; cauda, 3 ; tarsi, |. 
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 anfi 
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. 
OcTjpterus superciliosus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, Part V., 1 837. 
Habitat. Australia : locality, interior of New South Wales. 
OCYPTERUS ALBOVITTATUS, ralenc. 
Fir 
Oc. capite, collo corporeqtie toto griseo-fuliginosis ; alis ccerulescenti-nigris ; remigis secundi, tertii, el 
quarti pogoniis externis albis; rectricibus ccerulescenti-nigris, ad apicem albis, intermediis duabus 
exceptis; rostro plumbeo, ad apicem nigra ; pedibus plumbeis. 
Long. tot. 7. unc. ; rostri, ^ ; alec, 5 ; cauda;, 3 ; tarsi, ^. 
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., tom. iv. t. 3. fig. 6. — Valenc. Mem. du Mus. d'Hist. 
Nat., tom. 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 Wales. 
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