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Glyciphila ? OCULARIS. CrowD 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, 5^ inches ; bill, § ; wing, 2| ; 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, | ; wing, 21 ; tail, 2^ ; tarsi, |. 
Habitat. New South Wales. 
Closely allied to the last, from which it differs in its more olive colouring, and in its smaller size. 
j^LGiALiTis ? 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^ inches ; bill, | ; wing, 3| ; tail, 2^ ; tarsi, 1|. 
Habitat. New South Wales. 
H^MATOPUS AusTRALASiANUS. Head, neck, breast, back, wings, and the tail-feathers, for three 
paits 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, 3^ ; wing, 10|; tail, 4^ ; tarsi, 21. 
Habitat. New South Wales. 
Nearly allied to the Hamatopus ostralegiis of England. 
RhynchjEA 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 Avith 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, 8J inches; bill, 2; wing, 5\; tail, 2^ ; tarsi, 11. 
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 AusTRALAsiANus. 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 
l)lackish 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 ohve. 
Total length, 20 inches ; bill, 5| ; wing, i 1 ; tail, 4-1 ; tarsi, 31. 
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. 
