59. CYSTICOLA EXILIS, GOULD.--Exile Warbler.
This little bird has a varied note, indeed it is not a bad songster. It inhabits grass beds and scrubby lands, but its range does not extend beyond the 32 degrees parallel. The Barrier Range appearing to form a limit to the wanderings of many of the smaller birds.
60. ACANTHIZA PYRRHOPYGIA.--Red-rumped Acanthiza.
A small bush bird of brown plumage on the back, with a reddish spot over the rump.
61. ACANTHIZA CHRYSORRHAEA.--Yellow rumped Acanthiza.
This bird is similar to the last in every thing but the colour of the feathers over the rump, which in the present specimen is yellow. Very common on the plains and open glades of woods.
62. XEROPHILA LEUCOPSIS, GOULD.--White-faced Xerophila.
It is singular, as Mr. Gould relates in his work, that this bird should not have been known or procured until he shot it, almost on the steps of Government house in Adelaide. It was occasionally seen in the interior, but not to the westward of the Barrier Range. It keeps generally on the ground. Mr. Gould has distinguished it in consequence its having a front of white. It is short and compact in form, and like the preceding bird keeps a good deal on the ground.
63. CALAMANTHUS CAMPESTRIS, GOULD.--Field Reed Lark.
This bird is smaller than the regular lark, and differs from it in many respects: indeed it more resembles the tit lark than the sky lark, and altogether wants the melodious song of the latter. It is a very common bird all over such parts of Australia as I have visited; frequenting open ground.