CHTHONICOLA. 



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This species is a late breeder, nests with eggs being more often found in New South Wales 

 in December, January, and as late as February. On the Herbert River, Queensland, Mr. J. A. 

 Boyd procured nests with eggs on the 23rd January, and on the 7th and 15th February, 1894, 

 and saw fledgelings just able to fly in the following September; nests with three fresh eggs in 

 each, he again found on the 19th and 25th January, 1895. Mr. C. French, Junr., has also sent 

 me for examination nests and eggs of this species taken in the neighbourhood of the Daly River, 

 in the Northern Territory of South Australia, on the 30th January and 6th February, 1902. 

 Two sets, containing four eggs in each, are of the typical rich ground colour and markings, but 

 some eggs are paler and more sparingly marked than others procured in the eastern and 

 southern portions of the continent. A set of three also contained an egg of the Rufous-tailed 

 Bronze Cuckoo (Lamprococcy.x basal is). 



Family TIMELIID^. 



oen-as oi3:'mo3sriooij^f^, Gould. 



Chthonicola sagittata. 



STREAKED WARBLER. 

 Sylvia sagittata, Lath., Ind. Orn., SuppL, p. liv., (1801). 

 Chthonicola minima, Gould, Bds Austr., fol.. Vol. Ill , pi. 72 (1848). 



Chthonicola sagittata, Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. 390 (1865); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., Vol VII., p. 290 (188.3). 

 AuuLT MALE — General colour above dull olive-broivn, broadly streaked with dark broivn: rump 

 bright olive-brown; upper wing-coverts like the back; quills brown, the outer webs of the primaries 



having narrow whitish edges and the secondaries 

 indistinct olive margins; two central tail feathers 

 broum, the remainder broivn narroivly edged 

 tvith olive and passing into blackish-broiun on the 

 apical portion ivhich is tipped with white ; head 

 dark brown, narroivly streaked with brownish- 

 white; lores tvhitish ; feathers around the eye and 

 a distinct eyebrow white, the latter bordered above 

 with a black streak, which widens out on the side 

 of the nape; a spot in front of the eye and the 

 ear-coverts pale brown; behind the ear-coverts a 

 conspicuous patch of pale olive-yellow feathers ; sides of the neck and all the under surface white, 

 slightly washed with olive-yellow and streaked with black, centre of the lower breast almost pure 

 white; flanks and under tail-coverts pale yellowish-buff; bill dark brown; leys and feet brown; ins 

 light yellow. Total length in the flesh 5 inches, wing 2-^5, tail 1-9, bill OSo, tarsus 08. 

 Adult female — Similar in plumage to the m,ale. 



Distribution.— Qneens\a.xi6., New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 

 /qr^HE present species is freely distributed in New South Wales and some parts of 

 X \'ictoria. I\Ir. E. R. Morgan has taken its nest and eggs near Dalveen on the high- 

 lands of the Darling Downs, Southern Queensland; and I have received for examination, from 

 the Director of the South Australian Museum, a skin obtained by the late Mr. F. \\ . Andrew^s 

 in the Gawler Ranges on the 26th September, 1882. Mr. Zietz informs me this is the only 

 instance he has known of its being found in South Australia. 



STREAKED WARBLER. 



