I'ALAMANTIIUS. 



measure : — Length (A) o-Sg x 0-66 inches; (B) o-8g x 0-67 inches. Anotiier set, taken by 

 him in a gully on the Macalister Range, on the 21st October, 1904, are pure white, with numerous 

 small and almost invisible dots and spots, which, when examined through a lens, are found to 

 vary in colour from pale to rich purplish-red. A pure white lustrous set taken by Mr. G. Sharp, 

 on the Bellenden Ker Range, on the 4th December, 190S, measures: — Length (A) o-86 x o-66 

 inches; (B) 1-85 x 0-62 inches. A set of pure white lustreless eggs, one of which is \'ery 

 strongly marked with purplish-red on the larger end, taken by Mr. J. Sharp at the Millstream, 

 Atherton, on the 28th December, 1909, measures :— Length (A) 0-93 x 0-67 inches; (B) 0-92 

 X 07 inches. The eggs of this species resemble those of the Rock Warbler (Ui'lf^iiia rnbyicata, 

 Latham^, which in some instances are pure white, in others finely dotted on the larger end with 

 purplish-red. 



Young birds resemble the adults, but have the superciliary stripe and chin dull ochraceous- 

 brown ; the throat is uniform in colour with the olive-brown breast, with a slight dusky wash on 

 the lower portion. Total length 4-3 inches, wing 2-4, bill 1-5. 



The breeding season commences at the latter end of July, or early in August, and continues 

 until the middle of February. 



Calamanthus montanellus. 



KiiClv FIKLD-LAKK. 



CaliDiiini/IiHs iiimt/atifllus, Milligaii, Emu, Vol. 11., p. 200 (1'..I03). 



Aduli' 1MAI.H. — (reiiera/ colour nhove, iurJiidiui/ the upper wiiuj-cocerts, ashy-olive, till tlie f'eaihers 

 hariiiij 11 hliickiith streak down the ceiilre, ii'hich is iiarroiver and more indistinct on the rump and 

 eiUirely lost oit the ii/iper Uiil-corerls ; i/iiills dark hrou-ii externally edyed ivith ashy-oHre ; central 

 pair of tail-feathers as/iy-ol ire with a si i(/hl dusky ivusli, and having blackish shafts, the retnoAuder 

 similar hut having a sub-terminal black band tipped, with a spot of ivhite on the inner web, the white 

 increasing towards the outermost feather on either side, >vhich is also 'narrowly eilye.d u'ith ivhile on 

 the apiad portion of the outer tveb ; foreliead and crown of the head like the back, the former was/ted 

 u-ith light rufous: line of feathers above ami below l/ie eye whitish; a narrow superciliary stripe 

 ■ivhite ; chin, throat, andfbre-neck faint greyish-^vliite eacli, feather having a blackish centre ; remainder 

 of the under su.rf ace pale yell ouHsli.djujI, e.acli, feather Iniving a blackish streak dou'n the centre, the 

 abdomen paler and. drcoid of streaks; under tail-cuverts paler yello>vish-bn./f edged or streaked u:itli 

 blackish-hroivn ; ^' bill pur/ilish-broiva ; legs and feet jleshy-pnrple ; iris yellow" (Carter). Tota.l 

 length o-.l inches, iving •.il5, tail 2, bill ()o, tarsus 0-S-i. 



AliUl.T FEMALK. — Similar in phiinage to the node. 



Distribution. — Western Australia. 



./T^HE present species is an inhabitant of Western .Australia, and is allied to Calainauiluis 

 -L fuliginosus, from which, however, it may be distinguished principally by the ashy-olive 

 hue of its upper parts, and, moreover, it is more narrowly streaked with black. There is a 

 specimen in the Australian Museum Collection, received from Mr. Bernard \\. Woodward, 

 Director of the Western Australian Museum, Perth, and collected on the Wongan Mills on the 

 4th October, 1903 ; also three specimens received in exchange from Mr. Tom Carter, one 

 procured by him on the i6th Pvlarch, 1910, on an open sand plain twenty miles east of Cranbrook, 

 and a young female procured on the 25th September, 1910, on the Pallinup River, both of these 

 localities being close to the Stirling Range, where the type was procured, and the third specimen, 

 an adult male, being obtained also by Mr. Carter at Broome Hill, on the 12th of the same 

 month. 

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