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ter novum pogoniis internis per partes tres longitudinis a 
basifuscis . 
All the upper surface brown; primaries dark brown; tail 
brownish black, the tips and the terminal half of the external 
margins of the two outer feathers white, the three next on each 
side are also tipped with white, the extent of the white becoming 
less upon each feather as they approach the centre of the tail; 
the four middle feathers without the white tip; throat, centre 
of the abdomen and under tail-coverts white, passing into pale 
brown on the sides of the chest and flanks; irides reddish brown; 
bill and feet blackish brown. 
Total length, 4g inches; bill, ; wing, 3g; tail, 2J; tarsi, 
Hab . Western Australia. 
Nearly allied to but much less in size than Aluscicapa ma- 
croptera , Vig. and Horsf., and from which it may also be 
distinguished by the base of the outer tail-feather being brown. 
Myjagra latirostris. Myi. corpore supra , alls eauddque 
intensi cccruleo-cinereis; capite et nucha fulgide vires - 
centibus; gutture ct peciore arenaceo-luteolis; abdomine 
albo. 
All the upper surface, wings, and tail dark bluish grey, with 
a shining greenish lustre on the head and back of the neck; 
throat and chest sandy buff; under surface white; bill much 
dilated laterally and black; irides blackish brown; feet black. 
Total length, 6 inches; bill, |; wing, 2J ; tail, 2$ ; tarsi, 
Hab. North-west coast of Australia. 
From the collection of Mr. Dring. 
Hirundo leucosternus. Hir, dorso medio , gutture et 
pectore alb is; abdomine, uropygio, alls eauddque nigris et 
ch a lybeto-carrulco-n 1 ten t lints. 
Crown of the head brown, bounded with white; back of the 
neck brown; centre of the back, chin, throat, and chest white; 
the remainder of the plumage black, slightly glossed with steel- 
blue ; bill black; feet brown. 
Total length, 7\ inches; bill, -&J wing, 3|; tail, which is 
deeply forked, 2|; tarsi, T V. 
Hab . Interior of Australia. 
The only specimen of this bird that has ever come under my 
notice was given me by Mr. Charles Coxen, who informed me 
that it was shot by one of his men while flying in company 
with another over a small pool on the banks of the Namoi. 
A small bird inhabiting the scrubs of the River Murray. It 
is a new form, nearly allied to Acanthiza. The generic term is 
suggested by the ruddy colouring of the throat. 
Genus Pyrrhol/emus. 
Charactered gencrkl — Rostrum quam caput brevius, ad latera 
paulo com pressum, ad apicem denticulo vix notando, vibrissis 
