THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
different from that bird, but incline on the rump to rust-colour ; aE the 
under-parts are white, with sagittal streaks of black ; the top of the head 
is black, marked with the same figured streaks of white, and the upper 
parts of the body with similar black ones ; from the nostrils, through the 
eye, and some way behind it, passes a ferruginous stripe ; tad loosely 
webbed and brown. 
Inhabits New South Wales in July : is said to sing remarkably well.” 
The two names given by Vieillot, Sylvia nitida and Sylvia pyrrophrys, seem 
to have been given to the same specimen, as the descriptions so exactly 
correspond, and both are from New South Wales. 
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