332 TIMEIIID^. 



b'" Back entirely concolorous. 



a*. Fore neck white, separating the 



hlaclf throat from the black chest cinnamomeuyn, p. 334. 

 h*. Fore neck and chest chestnut .... castanothorax, p. 335. 

 c*. Fore neck and chest cinnamon .... marginatum, p. 336. 

 b". Thi'oat white, the lower throat, fore 



neck, and chest orange ajax $ , p. 337. 



c" . Throat dusky brown ; fore neck and 



chest orange ajax S juv., p. 337. 



d". Throat bufly whitish; chest and fore 



neck ashy cinnamomeum $ , p. 335. 



d'. Wing-coverts black without spots; sides 



of body orange aja.v cJ ad., p. 337. 



1. Cinclosoma punctatum. 



Punctated Thrush, Lath. Gen. Sijn., Suppl. ii. p. 187 (1801). 

 Tm-dus punctatus, Lath. Lnd. Orn., Snppl. p. xliv (1801). 

 Cinclosoma punctatum, Vi</. ^- Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 220 



(1826) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 224 (1846) ; Gould, B. Austr. fol. iv. 



pi. 4 (1848) ;■ Cab. Mas. Rein. Th. i. p. 85 (1850) ; Reichenb. Vog. 



Neuholl. p. 106 (1850) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 433 (1865) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 280, no. 4124 (1869) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 187 (1878). 

 Cinclosoma punctatus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 278 (1850). 



Adult. General colour above brown, mottled all over the back 

 with blackish centres to the feathers of the entire upper surface 

 except the head, which is uniform brown, and the upper tail- 

 coverts, which are brown with fulvescent edges ; wing-coverts ashy 

 grey, with black centres and tipped with white ; bastard-wing 

 feathers and primary-coverts dusky brown, externally ashy and 

 broadly edged with white towards the end of the outer web ; 

 greater wing-coverts blackish brown, tipped with white and ex- 

 ternally fulvous-brown, margined with ashy on the extreme edge ; 

 innermost greater coverts chestnut, tipped with fulvous-brown and 

 mesially streaked with black ; quills brown, externally edged with 

 fulvous, and margined on the primaries with hoary white ; the 

 innermost secondaries wa.shed witli rufous on the inner web, chest- 

 nut ou the outer one, with a broad central streak of black ; centre 

 tail-feathers olive-brown, edged with fulvous, the remainder black, 

 washed with grey near the base and broadly tipped with white ; 

 forehead grey ; lores, eyelid, and feathers round the eye ashy whitish, 

 continued into an eyebrow above the lores, which becomes fulvous 

 above the ear-coverts ; ear-coverts brown ; sides of neck behind the 

 latter ashy ; cheeks and throat ashy whitish, the hinder part of the 

 cheeks and sides of the throat adjacent orange-buif, forming a 

 patch ; lower throat and fore neck bluish grey, forming a broad 

 band across to the sides of the chest ; breast and centre of body 

 creamy buff with whitish endings to the feathers, the sides of the 

 breast and flanks light tawny, the feathers tipped with creamy 

 white, with broad longitudinal centres of blacldsh brown ; feathers 

 on sides of breast slightly washed with ashy ; under wing-coverts 



