330 TIMELIIDJE. 



Adult female. General colour above fulvous-brown, mottled witli 

 black on the mantle, the feathers having white shaft-lines and a 

 large longitudinal mark of black, general])' confined to the inner 

 web ; wing-coverts black, with broad grej' ends, somewhat tinged 

 with fulvous on the greater series ; quills brown, with a grey band 

 at the base, succeeded by a broad blackish band and then by an 

 ashy fulvous one, these three bands being produced by the outer 

 aspect of the quills, which are successively grey, blackish, and ful- 

 vous ; the inner secondaries externally ashy fulvous, blackish on 

 the inner web ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ferrugi- 

 nous ; centre tail-feathers reddish brown, the remainder blackish, 

 externally reddish brown ; crown of head dull rufescent brown, the 

 feathers edged with blackish, producing a scaly appearance ; fore- 

 head, sides of crown, sides of face, and cheeks dark ashy grey, a 

 little deeper on the latter; throat and fore- neck orange-rufous, 

 whitish on the chin ; sides of neck and sides of breast ashy grey, 

 separated from the rufous throat by a black band ; breast and 

 abdomen white, the latter mixed with ashy ; flanks dull ferruginous, 

 washed with ashy grey ; under tail-coverts reddish brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ashy grey, the lower ones washed with 

 reddish ; quills dusky brown below, narrowly edged with brown ; 

 "bill and feet black; iris very dark hazel " {Gould). Total length 

 7*3 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-2, tail 3-1, tarsus V2. 



Adult male. Like the female on the upper surface, but dis- 

 tinguished by the absence of the rufous throat, the whole under 

 surface from the chin to the lower abdomen being white, the sides 

 of the body as in the female. Total length 7"5 inches, culmen 0-65, 

 wing 3*6, tail 3-05, tarsus 1-3. 



Young. Differing from the adults in being mottled all over, the 

 feathers of the upper surface being rufous with blackish margins, 

 the mantle-feathers and wing-coverts with subterminal spots of 

 golden buff, forming a double wing-bar on the latter ; quills blackish 

 near the base, succeeded by a bar of pale fulvous ; throat and breast 

 mottled, the feathers reddish, edged with black ; the breast whiter, 

 but the feathers also narrowly margined with black ; flanks reddish, 

 with black margins and subterminal spots of golden buff. 



The full plumage is gained at the first moult ; but many of the 

 new feathers on the throat and breast have blackish edgings, show- 

 ing a trace of the previous young dress. 



Hah. Victoria, ISTew South Wales, extending throughout the 

 Richmond-river district to Wide Bay. 



