432 APPKSiJix. 



FachyiCphala fnionnn, l>e \'is, from Canibridj^e Gulf and Kiiiibei ley, of which I have examined 

 a specimen received on loan from the Director of the Queensland Museum, is very closely allied, 

 if not identical with the present species. The specimen collected by the late Mr. \V. Saville 

 Kent, at Cambridge Gulf, North-western Australia, was also procured in the mangroves. 



Neositta leucoptera. 



VVIHTE-WINGED HAKK-1'KC'KEK. 



SitleUah'ucoptera, G,o\i\A,'Proe. Zool. Soc, 1839, p. 114; /'/., I!cls. Aiistr., fol. Vol. IV ., pi. 103, 

 (18-18); iiL, HaiuUik. lids. Aiiatr., Vol. I., p. Gil (18G.5); Uadow, Cat. Bd.s. Brit. Mus., 

 Vol. VIII., p. 3(13 (1S83). 



Neoailla Iriicop/rnt, Sliarpp, Iland-l. Ikls., Vol. IV., p. 3")2 (l'J03). 



Adult M.\LK. — II i nd-ui'ck, inanl/n iiiitl hark pati' hroirn, umst uf lln' fi'dtliTf! ci'ittred icitli black : 

 riimp and nppir lail-coverls irliilr : iipprr trinij-corerls hi ark : (/uills hro?i'HisJi-hlnck, irilh a f/iort. 

 whilislt streak at tlie ends of most of the slinfls, the primaries crossed in t/ie ntidille ivit/i a >chite band, 

 except on the outer ireh of llie first primary ; tail-featliers bron'nish -black, all but the central pair 

 ■>vith a s/>ot of irhite lU the tip, ivliich increases in si-.e tonmrds the ontennost feather on either side ; 

 forehead, cromn of the /lead and nape black; lores, a narroiv frontal baud and eyebrotvs icliite ; 

 ear-corerts reri/ pale broivn : chin, throat and all the nni/er surface white; iinder tail-coverts white 

 crossed ivith sagittate black markiiKjs ; " bill yellow, black at the tip ; leys anil feet yellou! ; iris 

 yellow" (McLennan). Talal lenylh, Jp.' inches, iviny o',.', tail I'f bill ()■'>, tarsus O'lj'i. 



Adult fkmalk. — Difers from tJie male in haviny the chin, npper part iif cheeks and ear-coverts, 

 as n:ell as the top and sides oj the /lead and, nn.jie, black. 



Distribiitiiiii. — North-western Australia, Northern Queensland. 



^^IlE type of this very distinct species was described by Gould in the " Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society of London," in 1839, from the north-western coast of Australia. 

 Its range extends nearly across the northern portion of the Australian continent, and it there 

 beautifully represents the Ncosilta ihrysoptcva and A^. pileata of the southern parts. The late Mr. 

 T. H. Bowyer-Lower and Mr. E. J. Cairn procured several examples near Derby, King Sound, 

 North-western Australia, in 1S86, and on the opposite side of the continent Dr. W. Macgillivray 

 and the late Mr. A. S. Macgillivray procured specimens at Cloncurry, about two hundred miles 

 south of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Queensland. In the same part of that State Mr. VV. 

 McLennan, collecting on behalf of I'r. \V. Macgillivray, procured a young male on the 21st 

 October, igio, at Sedan, on the Cloncurry River, and on the jSth June following obtained 

 another male on the Leichhardt Kiver, Northern Queensland; the stomachs of both of these 

 specimens contained the remains of small beetles and other insects. Young males may be 

 distinguished by a broader white frontal band, and a few scattered white feathers among the 

 black ones on the crown of the head, and by the larger white tips to the quills. 



A set of three eggs taken by Mr. Claude Macgillivray, in 1908, from the usual open bark- 

 formed nest of the diflerent species of this genus, and built in a Box-tree near Cloncurry, 

 Northern Queensland, are oval in form, the shell being close-grained, smooth and almost lustreless. 

 They are of a faint greyish-white ground colour, over which is distributed irregular-shaped spots 

 and small blotches of slaty-grey and slaty-black, the markings predominating and being larger 

 near the centre of the shell, where they form an ill-defined band. They measure ; — Length (A) 

 0'56 X o'54 inches; (B) o'Gg x o'54 inches; (C) o-Sy x o'52 inches. The eggs of the White- 

 winged Bark-pecker are indistinguishable from those of other members of the genus. 



