COLLURICINCLA PAR VULA, Gould. 
Little Colluricincla. 
Colluricincla parvula, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, May 27, 1845. 
This species, to which I have given the name of parmla, from the circumstance of its being the smallest of 
the genus that has come under my notice, is a native of Port Essington and the neighbouring parts of the 
northern coast of Australia. Mr. Gilbert, to whose notes I must refer for all that is known about it, states 
that it is an inhabitant of the thickets ; is an extremely shy bird, and is generally seen on or near the 
ground. Its note is a fine thrnsh-like tone, very clear, loud and melodious. The stomach is muscular, and 
the food consists of insects of various kinds, but principally of coleoptera. The nest and eggs were brought 
me by a native ; they were taken from the hollow part of a tree about four feet from the ground ; the former, 
which was too much injured to be preserved, was formed of small twigs and narrow strips of the bark of a 
Melaleuca. The eggs were two in number, of a beautiful pearly flesh-white, regularly spotted all over with 
dull reddish orange and umber-brown ; like the eggs of the other species of the genus, they are also 
sprinkled over with bluish markings, which appear as if beneath the surface of the shell ; their medium 
length is one inch, and breadth nine lines. 
The sexes are so nearly alike in plumage, that they are not readily distinguished from each other ; but 
the male is somewhat larger than his mate. 
All the upper surface, wings and tail olive-brown ; a faint line over the eye and the chin white ; all the 
under surface pale buff, the feathers of the throat and breast with a broad stripe of brown down the centre ; 
irides dark brownish red ; bill blackish grey ; tarsi bluish grey. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
