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(touMs B irds of A ustrali a . 
behind the Victoria Baths: but the present improvements 
may have driven them from the spot. Plate 11, again, 
furnishes us with one of our native birds, the Cinclosoma 
punctatum , the ground dove of the Tasmanians, which, 
till the discovery of the C . castanolus of Gould in 
Southern Australia, was the only one of the genus; for 
those thrushes from the Himalaya, placed by Vigors iu 
this genus, have been formed into a separate one, called 
lanthocincla. The ground thrush, we are sorry to say, 
is so much liked by our epicures, that the numbers have 
much diminished in our recollection in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Hobart. 
We must pass on to the Rhipidura albiscapa , separated 
by Gould from the R. flabellifcra of New Zealand. We 
can confirm Gould’s opinion of its being a constant 
resident; for we have met with it rather plentifully in the 
depth of winter, when the ground has been partially 
covered with snow, when it darts from some neighbouring 
stump on the unfortunate insect bold enough to brave 
the cold, and immediately returns to its post with its 
outstretched tail. The nest, as Gould says, is a wine¬ 
glass in shape, and woven together with exquisite skill; 
but the plate, beautiful as it undoubtedly is, fails to do 
it justice_all the nests too that we have seen have been 
larger. We had thought the shrub here represented to 
be a Bedfordia . 
On the following plate we have figures of the 
male and female Meliphaga Australasianci , or sawyer 
honey-sucker, together with the Epacris impressa , now 
in full bloom, in all its variety of tints, on the hills 
round Hobart: bat particular-coloured varieties will 
generally be found to congregate in particular spots. This 
plate we consider a very admirable one, as the birds are 
almost instinct with life and motion. The eye of the 
female is, however, as bright a red as that of the male, 
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