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shaft streaks. Palpebral streak dark in front, rufous in centre, 
pale posteriorly. Chin, throat, upper breast and flanks, pale 
rufous, passing into dusky white on the lower breast and abdomen ; 
vent dusky brown ; under tail coverts bright rufous ; tail witli 
a black transverse band, occupying the third quarter from the base ; 
thighs and under wing coverts pale rufous ; bill, legs, and feet, 
dead straw colour. Total length, 85 mm., culmen imperfect, 
wing, 50 ; tail, 42 ; tarsus, 21. Tail rounded, four stiff bristles 
at the gape. Locality, Charleville. Collector, K. Broadbent. 
There is but one example of this bird, and that of unknown 
sex. It is not at all unlikely that when it is better known, it will 
be referred to another genus. 
Description of Acanthiza modesta n.s. 
Above, pale olive brown, mantle feathers with concealed 
paler shafts ; rump pale yellowish brown, with a few white -tipped 
feathers ; wing brown, coverts edged with ash grey, grey primaries 
with the same, but much more narrowly, bastard wing with dingy 
white ; tail feathers ashy brown, with a broad blackish sub terminal 
cross band and a broad whitish tip ; forehead and lore uniform 
with head ; eyelid dingy white and obscure ; cheeks pale brown ; 
ear coverts darker brown, both with pale shaft streaks ; side of 
neck, shoulder, and all beneath pale buffy yellow, purer on the 
abdomen and under tail coverts, slightly tinged with rufous on the 
throat ; thighs pale brown, its feathers edged with pale yellow ; 
under wing coverts yellowish white ; inner webs of quills with 
paler margins ; bill and feet dark brown. Length, 85 mm ; 
culmen, 7 ; tail, 40 ; wing, 48 ; tarsus, 19. 
Female like the male, but with all the feathers of the rump 
broadly edged with pale yellow, and the head faintly lineated 
with paler shaft streaks. Habitat, Charleville. 
The sexes are given on the authority of the collector, Mr. K. 
Broadbent, but it seems not improbable that they should be reversed. 
On the whole, perhaps, this bird resembles A. lineata more than 
any other, but altogether wants the distinctly striated throat, 
and all but a trace of the lineated head of that species. 
Description of Ancathiza katherina, a Mountain Thornbill. 
Above olive green, duller anteriorly, slightly rufescent 
posteriorly ; wing brown, coverts and secondaries broadly edged 
with olive green, primaries narrowly with greenish gray, which 
towards the base and on the innermost primaries is rather rufescent ; 
upper tail coverts rufous brown, lateral uropygial tufts edmost or quite 
obsolete ; middle tail feathers pale, rather rufescent -brown on the 
outer webs, laterals with a broad subterminal black cross band and a 
large dusky white tip, which, on the anterior half of its inner web, 
becomes white, thus forming a cuneiform white spot beyond the 
black cross bar ; frontal feathers olive brown at base, with pale 
