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Show 438 MR. E. P. RAMSAY ON A NEW ATRICHIA. [Nov. 22, misnomer. The hen lays towards the end of May ; the egg is larger than a common fowl's, and, as far as I recollect, rather bluish in tint. The Chinese, w ho bring these birds in, feed them with a kind of millet-cake ; they are also very fond of barley, which is grown in quantities in the mountain-valleys. 7. Description of a N e w Species of Atrichia from the Richm o n d River, N e w South Wales. By E. P. R A M S A Y, C.M.Z.S. ATRICHIA RUFESCENS, nov. sp. All the upper surface rufous brown, becoming rufous on wings and tail; each feather, except those of the wings and tail, crossed by three crescent-shaped lines of blackish brown ; underside of the wings and inner webs of primaries and secondaries dark brown, tertiaries and outer webs of primaries and secondaries crossed with wavy zig-zag lines of black ; under wing-coverts brown, edged with rufous ; upper tail-coverts and both the upper and under side of all the tail-feathers deep rufous, crossed by numerous distinct wavy lines of black ; ear-coverts, cheeks, and sides of the throat and neck rufous, barred indistinctly with dark brown, becoming more distinct on sides of chest, which is rufous; throat whitish ; rest of the under surface deep rufous, becoming brighter and of a much deeper tint on centre of abdomen and under tail-coverts; flanks deep rufous, crossed with narrow wavy lines of blackish brown ; irides dark brown ; bill dark horn-colour, becoming whitish on lower mandible; legs and feet light reddish brown ; claws light horn-brown. Total length 6-J^J inches ; bill -^ in length, in height y2^, width -fc; tarsi 8|- tenths ; claw of hind toe 3 | tenths ; claw of middle toe y2^; wing 2-^j inches ; tail 2 ^ . I propose the specific name of rufescens for this species, as being most appropriate. Two males were all that were procured. These were shot in the thick brushes on the borders of the Richmond River, about the end of December 1865, by that well-known ornithologist Mr. T. MacGillivray, from whom I purchased the present specimen. Atrichia rufescens may at once be distinguished from A. clamosa of the west coast by its smaller size and the rufous tint which pervades the whole plumage. The legs and claws are much larger in proportion to the size of the bird than those organs in the much larger species A. clamosa ; the claw of the hind toe is exactly the same in size as that in A. clamosa. A specimen of A. clamosa, now before me, kindly lent to me by G. Krefft, Esq., Curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney, being one of those procured in Western Australia by Mr. G. Masters in March 1866, differs slightly from Mr. Gould's description given in his 'Handbook to the Birds of Australia' (vol. i. p. 345), in the following particulars, viz.:-The throat, chest, and abdomen pure white; an irregular triangular patch of black feathers edged with |