. Animals in menageries. , black, with a broad crescent-shaped band of white uniting the eyes. Inhabits Tasmania. Sent by Thomas James Lem-priere, Esq. Mus. Nost. Total length 6 inches ; bill, gape ^ ; front ^; wings 3 ;tail, beyond, ]i ; base 2f ; tarsus-^. The plumage above, andon the sides of the neck and breast, is cinereous grey : the regionof the chin is pure white : the nape may be said to have twobands, — the first of white, the second of black. 189. EuDYNAMis Australis. Entirely black. The bill yellow. Wings nine incheslong. Female. — Spotted: the third quill Australi
. Animals in menageries. , black, with a broad crescent-shaped band of white uniting the eyes. Inhabits Tasmania. Sent by Thomas James Lem-priere, Esq. Mus. Nost. Total length 6 inches ; bill, gape ^ ; front ^; wings 3 ;tail, beyond, ]i ; base 2f ; tarsus-^. The plumage above, andon the sides of the neck and breast, is cinereous grey : the regionof the chin is pure white : the nape may be said to have twobands, — the first of white, the second of black. 189. EuDYNAMis Australis. Entirely black. The bill yellow. Wings nine incheslong. Female. — Spotted: the third quill Australia. Mus. Nost. OP NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 345 Total length 18 inches ; bill, ^ape \i ; front 9 ; tarsus 1^ ;hind toe and claw ^ ; middle ditto Ifg. Hitherto confoundedwith the true E. orientalis, which is much smaller, and whosewings measure only 7^ inches. 190. Chrysomus zanthopygius. Glossy black: the head,rump, shoulder covers, andthe whole of the under plu-»nage_, golden yellow. Inhabits ? Mus. Nost. {). ^^T^ Total length nearly 8 inches;bill, gape ^; front the same;wings 4 ; tail, beyond, 1^ ; base 3 ;tarsus 1; hind toe and claw fg;iniddle ditto 1. Claws long, slen-der, and very slightly yellow on the head does notreach so far as the nape : theinner wing covers, and the margin of the carpus, are alsoyellow. The total confusion into which Dr. Wagler hasthrown the whole of the American Sturnida, by unitingthem into one genus, renders it now utterly impossible todetermine any but the most common species: his treatmentof this group, and of the Psittaddce, is truly anomalous ; andboth seem to be regulated more by caprice than by any oneprinciple of classification, natural or artificial. Our presentspecies is more typical than C. icterocephalus (a), which has thehind claw shorter and more curved. 191. Chloropsis curvirostris. Green: maxillary stripe violet; shoulder coversvivid blue: middle of the body, and under tail covers^orange. Inhabits India. Mus.
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