CINX'LOKA.MPHUS. 



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undoubtedly a lapsus calami, which he copied in his " Handbook," - and "Supplement to the 

 Birds of Australia,"! although he figures it in the latter work with an ochraceous-buff eyebrow, 

 and states in other places in both works that it has a buffy stripe over the eye. 



The female described on tlie preceding page was procured by Mr. G. A. Keartland at 

 Deering Creek, Central Australia, during the journey of the Horn Scientific Expedition. 

 This specimen has the superciliary stripe, also the one on the side of the throat, almost pure 

 white, with only a faint wash of ochraceous-buff on the posterior portions, which led me 

 formerly to believe it was an abnormally plumaged young male of Cinclosoma castanonotum. 

 The acquisition and examination of a larger series of the latter species, has proved me wrong 

 in so doing. 



Relative to this specimen, Mr. Keartland writes me:— "The different species of the genus 

 Cinclosoma are usually shy, and when once disturbed difficult to find again, as they run very 

 fast immediately they alight. A remarkable exception was the female I shot at Deering Creek, 

 Central Australia, which 1 followed from bush to bush, and e\entually shot from a branch 

 about fifteen feet high." 



An egg received by Mr. Keartland, referrable to this species, for it is entirely distinct from 

 any other Ground-Thrush's egg received from Central Australia, was taken by Mr. C. E. Cowle. 

 It is a swollen-oval in form, the shell being close-grained, smooth, and slightly lustrous; of a 

 dull white ground colour, thickly sprinkled over with irregular-shaped dots, spots, and small 

 blotches of blackish-brown, intermingled with similar underlying markings of inky-grey, which 

 predominate on the larger end:— -Length i-i2 x o-g inches. This egg resembles a small swollen 

 one of Cinclosoma pnnctatum. 



GenVLS OIISTOI-.OI3-A.3yCI=I3:'Cr3, Gould. 



Cincloramphus cruralis. 



BKOWX SIXGIXG-LAKK. 

 Megalurus cruralis, Vig. k Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc, Vol. XV., p. '228 (1826). 

 Cincloramphus cruralis, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol.. Vol. III., pi. 71 (1848); id, Handbk. Bds. Austr., 

 Vol. I., p. 394 (186.5); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 498 (1883); id., Hand-1. 

 Bds., Vol. IV., p. 26 (1903). 

 Cincloramphus cantillans, Gould, Bd.s. Austr., fol., Vol. IV., pi. 75 (1848); id, Handbk. Bds. 

 Austr, Vol. I., p. .39.5 (186.5). 



Adult ii.KLE—(In breeding plumage): General colour above dark brown, each feather margined 

 with jiale fulcous-brown ; rump broivn ; upper tail-coverts ashy-brown; upper wing-coverts like the 

 back, the greater series e.cternally margined ivith fulvous ; quills brown, edged with pale fulvous- 

 broum, irhilish around the tips, /he innermost secondaries darker brotvn, and externally more broadly 

 margined with fulvous, like the greater wing -coverts ; tail feathers broivn, edged with whity-brown ; 

 head ashy-brown, the centres of the feathers slightly darker; a triangidar-shaped patch in front, and 

 the feathers below the eye black; ear-coverts brown, icith fulvous-tvhite shaft lines; cheeks, chin, and 

 throat blackish-brown; remainder of the under surface dusky brown; thighs pale brown; under tad- 

 coverts dark brown, broadly margined with whity-brown; bill black; legs and feet jleshy-broivu tvith 

 a dusky wash; iris greyish-brown. Total length in the flesh 10 inches, tving 4.-2, tail 4, bill Odo, 

 tarsus 1 6. 



Adult female — (In breeding plumage): Differs from the male in being much smaller and 

 lighter in colour, the feathers of the upper parts slightly paler and broadly margined with fulvous, 



* Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. i., p. 438 (1865). 

 t Bds. Austr., fol., Suppl , pi. 32 (1869). 



