The Plate represents a male and female of the natural size. [Illustration: AMYTIS STRIATUS: _Gould_. _J. & E. Gould del^t._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] AMYTIS STRIATUS. Striated Wren. _Amytis textilis_, Less. Traité d’Orn., p. 454. pl. 67. fig. 2. _Dasyornis striatus_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part VII. p. 143. The only specimen I procured of this little bird in a recent state, was shot while I was traversing the Lower Namoi; it appeared to give preference to a loose sandy soil studded with high rank grass, which, growing in tufts, left the interspaces quite bare: through the natural labyrinth thus formed the Striated Wren ran with amazing rapidity, and it was only by forcing it to take wing that I succeeded in killing the one I obtained, which on dissection proved to be a male, and which served for the upper figure in my Plate: the other figure is supposed to represent the female; but as this can only be ascertained by the internal examination of a recent specimen, and no opportunity for so doing has yet occurred, this point must, for the present, remain undecided. All the specimens I have seen from New South Wales were in the red state of plumage, which goes far towards proving that this bird is really distinct from _Amytis textilis_. Nothing has yet been ascertained respecting its nidification: its food, like that of the Textile Wren, consists of insects of various kinds. Upper surface fine rusty red, each feather with a line of buffy white bounded on each side by black down the centre; line beneath the eye black; ear-coverts black, striated with white; wings and tail brown, margined with light reddish brown; base of the primaries rust-red, forming a conspicuous patch; chin and throat white; feathers of the chest buffy white, with two lines of brown, one down each side the stem; under surface rust-red, some of the feathers with a stripe of white down the centre; tail dark brown, indistinctly barred with a still darker tint, margined with lighter brown; irides hazel; bill dark horn-colour; feet brownish lead-colour. The Plate represents a male and female of the natural size. [Illustration: AMYTIS MACROURUS: _Gould_. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _Hullmandel & Walton Imp._ ] AMYTIS MACROURUS, _Gould_. Large-tailed Wren. _Amytis macrourus_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Jan. 27, 1847. _Nyern-de_ and _Jee-ra_, Aborigines of the interior of Western Australia.