MUSCICAPID.E. 



blotched with different shades of chestnut, red, or brown. In some specimens the markings 

 are faint and nearly obsolete, in others they are bold and well defined; but as a rule they 

 predominate on the thicker end where they form a more or less well defined zone. If a large 

 series is examined, they will probably be found to vary as much in colour and markings as 

 those oi Eopsaltria australis, for Gilbert describes them as being of a wood-brown, obscurely 

 freckled with yellowish-red. A set of two measures:— Length (.\) 0-84 x 0-62 inches; (B) 

 0-83 xo-6 inches. Another set measures:— (A) 079 x o-6 inches; (B) o-8 x o-6i inches. 



Eopsaltria georgiana. 



WHITE-BELLIED ROBIN. 

 Gobe-mouche georgien, Quoy et Gaim., Voy. de I'Astrol., Atlas, pi. 3, fig. i. 

 Muscieapa georgiana, Quoy et Gaim., Voy. de I'Astrol., Zool., Tom. I., p. 17.5 (IS.SO). 

 Eopsaltria leucogaster, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1846, p. 19; id., Bds. Austr., fnl., Vol. III., pi. 1.3 



(1848); id., Handl)k. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. 296 (186.5). 

 Eopsaltria gularis, (nee Quoy et Gaim ), Gadow, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. Vlli , p. 181 (188.3). 

 Eopsaltria georgiana, North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 2nd ser.. Vol. X.WII., p. 7.5 (1902). 



Adult male — General colour above dark slaty-grey; lesser wing coverts like the back, the median 

 and greater coverts blackish-brown; edge of the wing tvhite ; quills blackish-brown ivith a white bar 

 near the base of their inner webs, excepting on the outermost primaries and innermost secondaries, 

 and forming a well defined band through the tving when spread; tail-feiUhers dark brown, externally 

 ivasht'd with slaty-grey, the lateral feathers tipped with white on their inner webs which increases in 

 extent towards the outermost feather ; lores and a spot in front of the eye blackish; chin and all the 

 under surface white, the chest and sides of the breast tinged with grey; bill blackish-brown ; legs and 

 feet blackish-broivn : iris dark brown. Total length 5 7 inches, wing 31, tail 26, bill 5, tarsus 095. 



Adult kkmalk — Similar in plumage to the male but slightly smaller. 



Distribution. — Western Australia. 

 gF) HAVE here included a description of Eopsaltria georgiana, in order to give the synonymy of 

 -t. it in regard to the works referred to above. Like the preceding species, this bird was 

 originally figured and described by MM. Quoy and Gaimard in the Atlas and Zoology of the 

 "\'oyage de IWstrolabe." It was discovered by the early French voyagers at King George's 

 Sound, Western .Australia, and received its specific name from the locality in which it was 

 found. .\s previously pointed out, the description of E. georgiana, in the "Catalogue of Birds 

 in the British Museum,"* erroneously appears under the name of the preceding species, 

 £. gularis. 



Mr. George Masters, who obtained adult and young specimens at King George's Sound, 

 in 1866, while collecting on behalf of the Trustees of the .Vustralian Museum, informs me that 

 he observed this species chiefly in timbered country with a light undergrowth, and that it was 

 not so common as the preceding species, Eopsaltria gularis. 



Immature birds have pale rufous-brown feathers with distinct white shaft stripes, inter- 

 mingled with the dark slaty-grey feathers of the upper parts; wings blackish-brown, the 

 greater wing-coverts and secondaries conspicuously tipped with white; sides of the head pale 

 rufous-brown; lores and a spot in front of the eye blackish-brown; all the under surface dull 

 white; the throat, fore-neck, and upper portion of the breast and flanks strongly washed with 

 rufous-brown. Wing 3 inches. 



• Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. viii., p. 178 (1883). 



