. Companion to Gould's Handbook; or, Synopsis of the birds of Australia. Containing nearly one-third of the whole, or about 220 examples, for the most part from the original drawings . which also the main body is composed. Horse hair or wool is also appropriated when at hand. Eggs, three, whitespeckled with rather large reddish brown spots, which are sometimes more numerous, and form a zone at the broad end. Size, a little smallerthan those of the former species, being about 1 inch long by 9 lines broad. The breeding season is November. COLLURICINCLA PAEVULA. (Little Shrihe Thrush) Uppee surfa
. Companion to Gould's Handbook; or, Synopsis of the birds of Australia. Containing nearly one-third of the whole, or about 220 examples, for the most part from the original drawings . which also the main body is composed. Horse hair or wool is also appropriated when at hand. Eggs, three, whitespeckled with rather large reddish brown spots, which are sometimes more numerous, and form a zone at the broad end. Size, a little smallerthan those of the former species, being about 1 inch long by 9 lines broad. The breeding season is November. COLLURICINCLA PAEVULA. (Little Shrihe Thrush) Uppee surface, wings, and tail, brownish olive; under surface, dull buff; throat, whitish; secondaries and tertiaries, brown. Length, 6i inches ; wing, 3f ; tail, 3i ; tarsus, |; biU, f. The above description, taken from the only specimen I have ever seen of this, the smallest species of the genus, applies to aspecimen which was shot at Cape York, and I regret to say was destroyed with other rare and valuable specimens on board the ill fated ship Fiery Star, on her passage to England, April 19, 1865. I did not figure it on account of its similarity to C. Eufigaster in everything OREOiCA CRISTATA Crested Oreoica. DICRURUS ■S-o^Tvi^tA DroTvgo OREOiCA CRISTATA. (Crested Oredica.) Mail.—Feathers from the bill to the eye and throat, pure white, surrounded by the black, which fronts the crest, is continued beneath theeye, and curves round, forming a broad band of black across the chest; hinder part of the crest and sides of the head, grey; upper surfaceand flanks, light brown ; wings, brown, margined with bullish brown ; tail, dark brown; centre of abdomen, whitish ; vent and under tailcoverts, buff; bill, black ; irides, orange; feet, brown. Female.^—Not so bright in her markings, the throat being dull white, the face grey, and but a faint approach to a band on thechest; her eyes, also, are hazel, and feet olive brown. Length, 8| inches ; wing, 4i ; tail, 3f ; bill
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