DESCRIPTION of the FEMALE, with NEST and EGGS 

 of the CINNAMON-CHESTED GROUND THRUSH. 



{Cindosoma marginatum, Siiarpk). 



By Alfred J. North, C.M.B.O.U., C.F.A.O.U., Ornithologist. 



(Plate xcii.) 



In July, 1908, the Trustees of the Australian Museum received 

 the skin of an adult female of Cindosoma marginatum, Sharpe, 

 from Mr. Chas. G. Gibson, Assistant Government Geologist of 

 Western Australia. It was procured the previous month at 

 YViluna, Western Australia, where Mr. Gibson was also success- 

 ful in finding the nest and eggs of this species, which he photo- 

 graphed, and will be found reproduced on the accompanying 

 plate. 



Cindosoma marginatum was described by Dr. R Bowdler 

 Sharpe from a single adult male skin, obtained by the late Mr. 

 J. R. Elsey in North-western Australia. Owing to Mr. Gibson's 

 absence during nearly the whole of the latter half of 1908 with 

 the party engaged on the survey of the proposed Trans-Continental 

 Railway-line between Western Australia and South Australia, 

 the eggs on loan for description, and the information relative to 

 the taking of them, have only been recently received. 



ClNCLOSOMA MARGINATUM, Sharpe. 



Adult female. — General colour above rich cinnamon brown, 

 the scapulars and upper tail-coverts slightly darker and having 

 narrow indistinct blackish shaft-streaks; the inner series of the 

 upper wing-coverts like the back, the outer series black largely 

 tipped with white, some of the outer greater coverts strongly 

 washed with rich cinnamon-brown; quills dark brown, the middle 

 of the outer webs of the primaries edged with white, tinged with 

 cinnamon brown ; the secondaries broadly margined with rich 

 cinnamon-brown; central pair of tail-feathers rich cinnamon- 

 brown, the apical portion brownish near the shaft, the remainder 

 black largely tipped with white; forehead, crown of the head, 

 nape and sides of the neck brown, with a faint cinnamon wash; 

 lores blackish; ear-coverts dark- brown; stripe over the eye 



