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material I am sending you. It was sheltered above by a dead bush, and averaged about three 

 inches in internal diameter." The nesting-material consists of a quantity of short twigs, strips 

 of bark, and long narrow dead leaves. 



The eggs are oval or elongate-oval in form, the shell being close-grained, smooth, and 

 lustrous. They are dull white or greyish-white in ground colour, and have, as a rule, uniformly 

 distributed over the shell, numerous freckles and small irregular-shaped spots, varying from 

 pale brown to dark wood-brown, and intermingled with a few similar underlying markings 

 of pale bluish or inky-grey. In some they are more thickly disposed on the larger end, where 

 they coalesce and form small confluent patches, caps, or an irregular-formed zone. A rare 

 variety has the surface markings nearly black, and the underlying ones which are more 

 numerous, light grey. A set of two measures as follows:— Length (A) 1-23 x 0-84 mches; 

 (B) 1-22 x'o-t^ inches. A set of two, taken in the Wmimera District, North-western Victoria, 

 measures:— Length (A) 1-23 x 0-83 inches; (1!) 1-2 x 0-82 inches. 



Young birds resemble the adult female, but are paler, and have the feathers of the chin and 

 throat dulUvhite. and those of the fore-neck pale ashy-grey, the former indistinctly tipped and 

 the latter parts margined with dusky-brown. Young males have the lower feathers of the back 

 and rump distinctly margined with chestnut; those of the centre of the throat and fore-neck 

 dull ashy-grey, like the adult female, but the former are mottled with black. Nearly adult 

 males may be distinguished by having a few of the feathers on the throat and centre of the fore- 

 neck dull ashy-grey instead of glossy-black. 



Cinclosoma cinnamomeum. 



CINNAMON-COLOURED GROUND-THRUSH. 

 Cinclosoma cinnamonieus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1846, p. 68; id, Bds. Austr., fol., IV., pi. 6 



(1848). 

 Cinclosoma cinnamomeum, Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. 437 (1865); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. 

 Brit. Mus, Yol. VII., p. 334 (1883); id., Hand-1. Bds., Vol. IV., p. 2 (1903). 

 Adult yiM^^^General colour above cinnamon-rufous, the head and hind-neck distinctly washed 

 with brown; upper wlng-coverls Mack, largely tipped with white; quills dark brown, externally 

 margined rvith pale cinnamon, these margins becoming broader and darker on the secondaries which 

 have the innermost series entirely cinnamon-rufous, as are also the inner greater-coverts; two central 

 tail feathers cinnamon-rufous, the next on either side black, the remainder black largely tipped with 

 white; superciliary stripe pale buff ; lores, feathers below the eye and continuing in a narrow line 

 down the sides of the neck black ; ear-coverts cinnamon-broimi ; chin and centre of the throat glossy 

 black; cheeks and sides of the throat white; fore-neck cinnamon, ivhitish in the centre, and followed 

 by a broad glossy black patch across the upper breast: centre of the breast and the abdomen white ; 

 sides of the body cinnamon, separated from the former by a line of black streaks on the feathers; 

 under tail-coverts white, the outer ivebs of some brotvn and having a longitudinal black streak close 

 to the shaft; hill dark brown; legs and feet olive. Total length 8 inches, wing SS, tail S-2, bdl 0-6S, 

 tarsus 1. 



Adult female— "/)ijers /ram the opposite sex in the absence of the black markings of the 

 throat, breast, and wings, these parts being brownish-grey." (Gould). 



Distribution.—Western New South Wales, Central Australia, Western Australia. 



' Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. i., p. 437 (iS^s) 



