PYRRHULAUDA VERTICALIS.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate XXV. (Male, Female, and Young.) 
M as p. capite, corporisque partibus inferioribus brunneo-nigris ; vertioe, genis, fascia transversa pone 
nucliam, macula ad latus pectoris, corporisque lateribus albis; dorso sordide fusco, plumis griseo-albis 
marginatis ; alarum tectricibus minoribus, remigiumque tectricibus brunneis, albo-margiuatis ; 
remigibus rubro-brunneis, apicibus sub-albis ; cauda, rectrice externa except^, brunnco-nigra, 
hac prtecipue, sub-alba ; oculis brunneis ; pedibus cameis. 
flem . — Supra brunnea plumis pallid^ rufo-bruimeo-marginatis ; gula guttureque subalbidis; pectore rufo- 
albo, brunneo-maculato ; abdomine nigro ; corporis lateribus, crissoque sordide albis. 
Longitudo unc. 
Megalotis verticalis, Rep. of Exped. App. page 48, 1836. 
Colour. Male .—' The crown of the head, the cheeks, a transverse bar on 
the back of the neck, and an irregular blotch on each side of the breast, 
together with the flanks, white ; the remainder of the head and under parts 
rusty black. The interscapulars, back, rump, and upper tail coverts dirty 
umber-brown, each feather irregularly edged with greyish white ; the lesser 
wing coverts and the primary and secondary quill coverts umber-brown, 
broadly edged with white ; the quill feathers broccoli-brown faintly tipt with 
white, and the secondaries and tertiaries, besides, are margined externally 
with the same colour ; inner aspect of shoulders umbei -brown. Tail, with 
the exception of the outermost feather of each side, umber-brown, the foui 
middle feathers darkest: the two feathers excepted are rusty white, with a 
cloud of brown along the inner vane towards its inner margin, and each pre- 
sents also a dash of the same tint upon the outer vane towards its quill. 
Bill dusky white, with a livid shade ; eyes dark-brown ; legs and toes flesh- 
coloured ; claws horn-coloured. 
Form &c.— ' Typical. Head rather small. Bill considerably thicker than 
that of P Australis, its sides more convex, and the culmen more obtuse and 
inore arched ; commissure slightly waved. Wings rounded, and when 
f lded reach to the last third of the tail, the first quill feather rudimentary, 
+ i° third and fourth of equal length and longest, the fifth rather shorter, the 
second and sixth equal and considerably shorter than the fifth. Tail very 
1‘ 1 tly forked Tarsus and toes moderately robust, the outermost and 
