146 Goulds Birds of Australia . 
unless there are still two distinct species confounded, 
as we have every reason to believe, and that Gould’s 
M. inornata is one of them: for we have never seen the 
male and female here represented together. Flocks, 
however, of what is called the female may be seen along 
the base of Mount Wellington at this present time, 
which always betray themselves by their note. We had 
a male brought us the other day much darker and more 
beautiful than the one here figured. The note of the 
male may be heard long after sunset, and resembles the 
sharp grating of a file quickly drawn twice across a saw, 
whence its local name. We think that it will event¬ 
ually prove (though with due deference to Mr. Gould) 
that the figures he has given are the females of 
Auslralasiana and inornata , especially as he says ex¬ 
pressly the irides of the female are brown. Now we have 
had many opportunities of seeing this winter what we 
consider the male of inornata , and the eyes were bright 
red. We have next two species of Pardalotus , P. affinis 
and P. uropygialis; the former from Tasmania, the latter 
a very pretty new species from the north-west coast of 
Australia. Both plates are excellent, but we have not 
space to dilate on them, and we can merely say that the 
last illustration in the first part is that of a curious bustard¬ 
like quail, or quail-like bustard, with a singular collar 
round its neck ; and we must, however reluctantly, defer 
the second part to another opportunity. We would, 
in the meantime, call on the ornithologist, the botanist, 
and the lover of the beautiful, to give their aid to a 
work so national by adding their names to the number 
of subscribers. 
A it gust 27 thy 1841. 
T. J. E. 
