Lores greyish white; crown of the head and all the upper surface deep grey, slightly tinged with olive; primaries and tail dark brown, margined with brownish grey; throat and under surface darkish grey, passing into buff on the vent and under tail-coverts; all the feathers of the under surface have a narrow dark line down the centre; thighs grey; irides dark reddish brown; bill blackish brown; feet dark greenish leaden grey. The figures represent a male and a female of the natural size. [Illustration: COLLURICINCLA BRUNNEA: _Gould_. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _Hullmandel & Walton Imp._ ] COLLURICINCLA BRUNNEA, _Gould_. Brown Colluricincla. _Colluricincla brunnea_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part VIII. p. 164. _Men-e-loö-roo_, Aborigines of Port Essington. This bird is abundantly dispersed over the Cobourg Peninsula, and is to be met with in all the forests in the immediate neighbourhood of Port Essington, in which distant locality it represents the _Colluricincla harmonica_ of New South Wales, the _Colluricincla Selbii_ of Van Diemen’s Land, and the _Colluricincla rufiventris_ of Western Australia. As might be expected, its habits and manners are very similar to those of the other species of the genus, consequently the description of those of _Colluricincla harmonica_ is equally descriptive of those of _Colluricincla brunnea_. A nest of this bird found on the 2nd of February was built in the upper part of a hollow stump, and was outwardly formed of narrow strips of the bark of the _Melaleuca_ and lined with fine twigs. The eggs are of a pearly bluish white, spotted and blotched with markings of olive-brown and grey, the latter colour appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell; their medium length is one inch and two lines by ten lines in breadth. It is a larger and more robust species than either _C. harmonica_ or _C. rufiventris_, the bill is shorter and much stouter, and the colouring is of a uniform light brown; even the primaries and tail-feathers are of the same hue. All the upper surface pale brown; primaries and tail the same, but somewhat lighter; all the under surface brownish white, becoming almost pure white on the vent and under tail-coverts; thighs greyish brown; bill black; feet blackish brown. The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size. [Illustration: COLLURICINCLA SELBII: _Jard._ _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _Hullmandel & Walton Imp._ ] COLLURICINCLA SELBII, _Jard._ Selby’s Colluricincla. _Colluricincla Selbii_, Jard. in Jard. and Selby’s Ill. Orn., vol. i. note to text of pl. 71. —— _rectirostris_, Jard. and Selby’s Ill. Orn., vol. iv. pl. xxxi. —— _strigata_, Swains. Anim. in Menag. &c., p. 283, female or young male. _Whistling Dick_, of the Colonists of Van Diemen’s Land.