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Show 604 ON NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS FROM QUEENSLAND. [Nov. 3, gape, with a narrow fleshy appendage, yellow. Feet and tarsi of a dark brown. Total length 8*5 inches ; bill from angle of mouth 1*05 inch, from feathers at the nostrils 065, from forehead P05, height at nostrils 0*2, breadth 0"2 ; wing from flexure 4'05 ; tail 3-6 ; tarsi 0'35. Hab. Rockingham Bay. Sexes alike in plumage. One specimen, said to be a male, is considerably smaller in all its measurements, which are as follows :- Total length 7-5 inches ; wing 3*65; tail 3*25 ; bill from angle of the mouth 0*95, from feathers at nostrils 0 6 inch, from forehead 0"9, height at nostril 0'2, breadth 0*2. 4. EoPSALTRIA (?) INORNATA, nOV. Sp. Whole of the head dull slate-brown, paler round the eye, lores darker; lower part of the neck and all the upper surface washed with olive; wings above dark brown, having the margins washed with olive ; inner edge of wing light olive-yellow, almost citron-colour. Under wing-coverts white, washed with citron-yellow; inner margins of tertiaries, secondaries, and the basal margins of the primaries whitish ; throat greyish white; chest brownish grey, washed with olive on the lower sides ; flanks, abdomen, and under tail-coverts citron-yellow; under surface of tail brown, shafts of feathers white; upper surface of the tail slightly darker brown, the exposed portions of the feathers washed with olive. Bill and legs black. Total length 5g inches; bill from forehead 0-5, from angle of the mouth 0*65, height at base 0-18, breadth 0-15; wing from flexure 3; tail 2-3; tarsi 0-7. Hab. Dense scrubs of the N.E. coast of Rockingham Bay and Endeavour river, &c. 5. RHIPIDURA SUPERCILIOSA, nov. sp. Description ( <S).-Head dark slate-colour; a very conspicuous line over the eye ; the throat and chin white ; the whole of the upper surface dark slate-brown ; spurious wing-feathers with a spot of light brown at the tips; upper wing-coverts marked faintly at the tips with white ; the tertiaries and secondaries having a whitish line ou the outer margin, which, becoming broader at the tips, forms an irregular spot tinged with brown ; tail blackish brown above ; across the chest a band of slate-brown, a few feathers in the centre of which are striped down the shaft with a narrow lanceolate mark of white. Abdomen and flanks buffy white ; under surface of shoulders white, the basal portion of the feathers being dark brown. Under tail-coverts white; under surface of tail dark brown, having the outer feathers on either side tipped to the extent of one third of its entire length with white, which colour extends along the outer web to within one third of the length of the feathers of the base, which is dark brown, the next feather on either side having at the tip an oblong oblique patch of white about '7 inch in length, the third feather on either side having only a small margined spot of white at the tip of the outer tdj^e. Bill and tarsi black. |