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eyebrow of buffy whitish running from the base of the bill to 

 the sides of the nape ; lores black, as also the feathers below 

 the eye, the latter with whitish streaks ; ear-coverts brown, the 

 fore part with whitish shaft-lines to the feathers ; cheeks white, 

 broadening towards the sides of the neck ; throat and chest glossy 

 blue-black ; sides of fore neck and sides of breast ashy, the flanks 

 fulvous brown ; breast and abdomen pvire white, separated from the 

 brown flanks by a line of glossy black, the feathers composing it 

 being white with a broad streak of black ; vent-feathers brown, 

 tipped with white, before which is a subterminal bar of black ; 

 under tail-coverts pure white on the inner web, brown on the outer 

 one, the latter with a longitudinal broad streak of black near the 

 end ; thighs brown : under wing-coverts and axillaries white, slightly 

 spotted with black near the edge, the lower series of coverts dull 

 ashy brown ; quills ashy brown below, lighter ashy along the edge 

 of the inner web ; " bill black, the base of the under mandible lead- 

 colour ; legs blackish brown; iris reddish hazel" (Gould). Total 

 length 9'7o inches, culmen 0-95, wing 4-1, tail 4-2, tarsus 1-2. 



Adult female. Differs in having the whole of the plumage much 

 lighter, and with only a slight tinge of chestnut on the rump ; the 

 stripes of white over the eye and down the sides of the neck less 

 distinctly marked ; the chin, throat, and breast grey instead of black ; 

 the irides hazel, and the feet leaden brown. (Gould, I.e.) 



Hah. Interior of South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria, 

 and extends to the Swan-river district in Western Australia. 



a. Ad. sk. South Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. South Australia (J. T. F. D. G odman and 0. Sal- 



Cockerell). vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



3. Cinclosoma cinnamomeum. 



Cinclosoma cinnamomeus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1846, p. 68 ; id. B. Austr. 



fol. iv. pi. 5 (1848) ; Sturt, Exped. Centr. Austr. ii. App. pi. 



(1849) ; Biggies, Orn. Austr. pi. 51. 

 Cinclosoma cinnamomeum, Grag, Gen. B. i. p. 224 (1846) ; Bp. 



Consp. I. p. 278 (1850); Reichenh. Vog. Neuholl. ii. p. 84 (1850); 



Gould, Handh. B. Austr. i. p. 4.37 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 280, no. 4126 (1869) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. 



p. 187 (1878). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above cinnamon- 

 rufous, the head a little duller ; wing-coverts glossy blue-black, 

 tipped with large triangular spots of white on all except the inner 

 greater coverts, which are cinnamon-rufous like the inner seconda- 

 ries ; quills brown, externally margined with pale cinnamon near 

 the base, with a faintly indicated fulvous bar across the middle of 

 the primaries, the first of which has a streak of light fulvous at the 

 tip of the outer web ; middle tail-feathers cinnamon with dusky 

 brown centres ; next pair black, washed with cinnamon near the 

 base ; remainder black, broadly tipped with white ; ear-coverts dark 

 cinnamon ; a distinct eyebrow of pale sandy buff; lores and feathers 



