The male has the head, neck, throat and back sooty black; a small spot of white in the centre of the forehead; wings brownish black; a few of the primaries and secondaries with an oblong spot of reddish brown on the outer web near the base and another near the tip, forming two small oblique bands when the wing is spread; breast and abdomen rose-pink, passing into white on the vent and under tail-coverts; irides and bill black; feet black, with the soles orange. The female has an indication of the white spot on the forehead; all the upper surface brown; wings and tail brown, with the markings on the primaries and secondaries larger and of a more buffy colour than in the male; throat brownish buff; chest and abdomen brownish grey; vent and under tail-coverts buff. The young male during the first autumn closely resembles the female; for the first two months after they have left the nest, they have the centre of each feather striated with buff. The Plate represents the male and female of the natural size. [Illustration: ERYTHRODRYAS ROSEA: _Gould_. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del^t._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] ERYTHRODRYAS ROSEA. Rose-breasted Wood-Robin. _Petroica rosea_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part VII. p. 142. _Erythrodryas rosea_, Gould in Ibid., August 9, 1842. This pretty little Robin inhabits all the brushes which skirt along the south-eastern coast of New South Wales. I also observed it to be numerous in the cedar brushes of the Liverpool range, and it doubtless frequents similar situations in all other parts of the country. It penetrates to the very depths of the forest, and chooses as its favourite abode the most secluded spots. It is a solitary species, more than a single pair being rarely seen at one time, is excessively quiet in its movements, and so tame, that in the course of my wanderings through the woods of Illawarra and in the neighbourhood of the Hunter, it frequently perched within two or three yards of me while resting my wearied limbs under a dense canopy of foliage, and listening to the songs of the various species surrounding me. What has been said respecting the habits and manners of the Pink-breasted Robin is equally descriptive of those of the present bird; its food is also precisely of the same kind, and is captured in a similar manner. Although it is by no means rare in the localities I have mentioned, but few specimens yet adorn our Museums, and it certainly had not received any scientific appellation until I proposed the one given above, in a letter addressed to the Zoological Society of London during my residence in New South Wales. Of its nidification and the number and colour of its eggs nothing is at present known. It has a cheerful inwardly uttered song, the strain of which is very like that of the other Robins, but is much more feeble.