THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
the description given by Latham of his Ruddy- War bier did not agree with the 
Cuckoo and advised the rejection of the name for the Cuckoo, and its renewal of 
rubricate/, for the Rock- War bier. I thereupon investigated the matter in view 
of this fresh interpretation and found that the picture of the Cuckoo which 
Latham himself recognised as his Ruddy-Warbler could not have been the 
one upon which his description was based. 
In order to have the facts on view in one place I reprint the Lathamian 
descriptions : 
8. rubricata. — S. cinereo-fusca subtus toto ferrugineo-rubra, alis caudaque 
fuscis. Ruddy-Warbier, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii., p. 249, 34. Habitat in Nova 
Hollandia : rostrum gracile : pedes flavi : irides avellanese. 
Ruddy Warbler. — This is a trifle larger than the Red-breast : the bill is 
slender and dusky : irides hazel : legs yellow : the plumage above brownish 
ash colour : beneath wholly ferruginous, inclining to yellow : wings 
and tail brown, the last rounded in shape. Inhabits New South Wales.” 
This description did not agree with the painting associated with the 
name by Latham himself as the upper-surface is bluish-grey and the under- 
surface is pinkish-red, without any inclination to yellow, and the tail 
shows the white markings of the Cuckoo ; there is still no doubt whatever 
that the painting is of the Cuckoo, but there can be no hesitation in 
rejecting the description of the Ruddy- War bier as referring to that painting, 
notwithstanding Latham’s note. However, the description of the Ruddy- 
Warbler is not applicable to the Rock-Warbler as no one could distinguish 
the dark under-coloration as 44 ferruginous inclining to yellow .” Further, there 
is no mention of the notable grey throat of the Rock- War bier in the description 
and neither are the 44 irides hazel ” nor the 64 legs yellow.” 
Consequently while I agree with the rejection of the name rubricata as 
available for the Cuckoo, I cannot at all consider the rejection of solitaria, an 
absolutely certain name, in favour of the inaccurate rubricata winch I do not 
believe was based on this species. 
The genus name Origma provided by Gould had been used previously by 
Meigen under the spelling Orygma and cannot be maintained. As a matter of 
fact Des Murs spelt Gould’s name Orygma as he concluded Gould had simply 
made a mistake in his spelling. I have altered the name to Origmella and I 
also named the Blue Mountain form 0. s. jpallida waiting : 44 Differs in being 
lighter,” but at present I am not continuing the separation as there is not 
sufficient material to determine the variation present. 
There are a few references to its nesting habits in the Emu which can be 
easily traced from the General Index now published, but which add nothing to the 
good accounts already on record by North and Campbell in their standard works. 
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