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New Species of 
parvulis ad basin, naribus linearibus et operculo tectis.^ Alee 
breves, rotundata?, remigum primo perbrevi, tertio longissimo. 
Cauda brevis, rotundata, concava. Tarsi mediocres; digitus 
externus qu&in internus longior. 
PYBRHOL2BMUS brunneus. Pyrrh. supeme brunneus; gut - 
ture rttfo. . 
Lores greyish white; all the upper surface and wings brown; 
tail brownish black, the three lateral feathers on each side largely 
tipped with white; centre of the throat rufous; the remainder 
of the under surface brownish grey, passing into sandy buff on 
the flanks and under tail-coverts ; bill and feet blackish brown. 
Total length, 4* inches; bill, J ; wing, 2J ; tail, g; tarsi, 
Hah. Belts of the Murray in South Australia. 
The female differs in having no red on the throat. 
A highly interesting Pigeon from the north-west coast, which, 
as it differs from ail the other forms of its family, and is said to 
inhabit the rocks, I propose to make the type of a new genus, 
with the name of 
Genus Petrophassa. 
Characteres generiei. —Fere ut in Peristera. Alee autem et 
rotundatae sunt et admodum breviores; deest etiam color 
metallic^ aeneus. Cauda magis rotundata. 
Petrophassa albipennis. Petr, supemi fnsca; gutture 
albo-guttato; pritnariis ad dimidium basalc adds. 
Crown of the head and neck greyish brown, margined with 
sandy brown; all the upper surface, chest, and tail rufous brown, 
the centre of each feather inclining to grey; lores black; ab¬ 
domen and under tail-coverts chocolate brown; throat clothed 
with small feathers white at the tip, black at the base; primaries 
dark brown at their tips, the basal half pure white; bill and 
irides blackish brown; feet reddish brown. 
Total length, 10£ inches; bill, g; wing, 5J; tail, o; tarsi, 3 . 
Ilab. Western Australia. 
Allied to the jn embers of the genus Peristera . 
Eudromius Australis. Eudr. colore cervino vel luteolo; 
abdomine medio castaneo; parte inferiore nec non ensso 
Forehead and all the upper surface light sandy buff, the 
centres of the feathers being brown; primaries brownish black 
with sandy buff shafts, and all but the first four broadly mar¬ 
gined with the same; throat huffy white, below which a cres¬ 
cent-shaped mark of blackish brown; chest, flanks, and under 
surface of the wing buff, passing into reddish chesiiut on t le 
abdomen, beyond which the vent and under tail-coverts are 
'white; tail brownish black, the centre feather margined with 
buff, the outer ones with white; bill dark olive brown; fee 
yellowish brown. 
