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deep ferruginous orange ; sides of the chest fine purplish blue, 
passing into a rich vinous tint on the flanks ; irides and bill black ; 
feet orange. 
Total length, 6 inches; bill, 2 ; wing, 2^ ; tail, 1|; tarsi, g. 
Hab. Port Essington. 
Remark.— This is by far the finest of the Australian Alcyones, 
and is at once distinguished by the rich blue of the upper surface 
and the beautiful vinous colouring of the flanks. 
Alcyone Diemenensis. Ale. omni superiore corpore intensi 
cyaneo, ad uropygium et tectrices caudce superiores splen- 
didius; alis nigris cyaneo lavatis; guld stramined; vertice 
nigro indistincti fasciato. 
All the upper surface deep blue, becoming more vivid on the 
rump and upper tail-coverts; wings black, washed with blue; 
throat buff; under surface of the body and wings ferruginous 
orange; on each side of the chest a patch of bluish black ; lores 
and a small patch behind the ears buff; crown of the head indis¬ 
tinctly barred with black ; irides and bill black; feet orange. 
Total length, 6^ inches ; bill 2 ; wing, 3$ ; tail, If; tarsi, l. 
Hab. Van Diemen’s Land. 
Remark. —Rather more robust than Alcyone azurea or A. 
pulchra, and differing from both in the blue of the upper surface, 
which is less brilliant and of a slight greenish tinge. 
Eopsaltria leucogaster. Hops, parvo maculo triangulari 
ante oculum nigro; vertice, corpore superiore, alis cauddque, 
saturate griseis ; corpore infenore albo. 
Immediately before the eye a small triangular-shaped spot of 
black ; above the eye a faint line of greyish white ; crown of the 
head, all the upper surface, wings and tail dark slate-grey ; the 
lateral tail-feathers largely tipped with white on their inner webs ; 
all the under surface white; irides dark brown; bill and feet 
black. 
Total length, 5f inches; bill, Oig; wing, 3; tail, 2f; tarsi, \. 
Hab. Western Australia. 
The sexes are alike in plumage. 
Strepera arguta. Strep, toto corpore nigro; rernigum api- 
