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and axillaries ■white, except the greater and primary-coverts of the 

 lower series, which are smoky brown, the former with indistinct 

 dusky subterminal spots ; quills ashy brown below, lighter ashy 

 along the inner web ; " bill black ; legs fleshy white, feet darker ; 

 iris very dark lead-colour, with a naked blackish-brown eyelash " 

 (Gould). Total length 10 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 4-5, tail 4-5, 

 tarsus 1-3. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in general appearance, but 

 easily distinguished by the orange-rufous patch on the hinder cheeks 

 extending some distance along the sides of the neck, and by the ashy 

 throat and dull whitish chin replacing the glossy black throat of 

 the male ; the grey chest-band is present, but is somewhat paler. 

 Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4-35, tail 3-9, tarsus 

 l-2o. 



Hah. Tasmania and South Australia, as well as the whole of the 

 eastern portion of the continent as far as the Wide-Bay district. 



a, b. 2 ^d. sk. New South Wales. Gould Collection. 



e. cJ; d,e. 5 ad. sk. South Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



/, ff. cS ad. sk. Australia. Goidd Collection. 



h. Ad. sk. Austraha. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



I. cJ ad. st. S. Austraha. C. D. E. Fortnum, Esq. 



[P.]. 



k. S ad. st. Australia. G. Macleay, Esq. [P.l. 



/. Juv. sk. Tasmania. Konald Gimn, Esq. [P.]. 



m,n. (S ad. sk. Tasmania. Antarctic Expedition [C.]. 



2. Cinclosoma castanonotum. 



Cinclosoma castanotus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 113 : id. B. Austr. 



fol. iv, pi. 6 (1848) ; Sturt, Exp. Centr. Austr. ii. Apjy. p. 27 



(1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 278 (1850); Reichenb. Vog. Neuholl. p. 107 



(1850). 

 Cinclosoma castanotum, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 224 (1846) ; Cab. Mus. 



Hein. Th. i. p. 85 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 280, no. 4125 



(1869). 

 Cinclosoma castaueonotum, Goxdd, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 435 (1865) ; 



Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 187 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above dtill brown, the mantle with slight 

 remains of dusky centres to the feathers ; scapulars, lower back, and 

 rump dark maroon ; upper tail-coverts dusky brown, with paler 

 brown edges ; wing-coverts glossy black, all the feathers tipped with 

 white, this white spot longer and more elongated at the tip of the 

 outer web on the bastard-wing feathers and primary-coverts ; the 

 inner greater coverts washed with light brown externally ; quills 

 dark brown, externally edged with lighter brown, the primaries 

 white at base of outer web, concealed by white tips to primary- 

 coverts, and having also a light fulvous bar obliquely across the 

 primaries: centre tail-feathers brown, the next darker brown, tipped 

 with white, before which is a subterminal shade of black, the 

 remainder with more of the black and the brown colour only to- 

 wards the base, the white tips of these feathers rather broader ; an 



