2. CINCLOSOITA. 335 



below the eye blue-black, extending in a narrow line down the sides 

 of the neck, fringing the white cheek-patch, which extends to the 

 sides of the fore neck ; base of lower mandible and throat blue- 

 black, separated by a band of white from the sides of the chest, 

 which are light cinnamon, as are also the sides of the body ; lower 

 breast and abdomen white, with a large patch of blue-black across 

 the upper breast ; the cinnamon flanks also separated from the white 

 abdomen by a line of blue-black streaks on the feathers ; thighs 

 sandy brown ; under tail-coverts white, the outer ones blue-black 

 for the greater part of the outer web, imparting a broadly streaked 

 appearance ; under wiug-coverts white, with a few dusky blackish 

 spots near the edge of the wing, the lower series dusky blackish ; 

 quills light ashy below, pale sandy buff along the inner web. Total 

 length 7'7o inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-5, tail 3-1, tarsus 1-1. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in wanting the black throat, 

 this being pale ashy fulvous or huffy white, succeeded by a band of 

 light ashy brown across the lower throat and fore neck ; there is no 

 black on the breast, nor are there any of the black streaks which 

 separate the white abdomen from the cinnamon-coloured flanks ; 

 instead of being streaked with black, the under tail-coverts are 

 cinnamon-brown on their outer webs ; on the iipper surface the head 

 and hind neck are light earthy brown, contrasting with the rest of 

 the back ; the wing-covcrts are brown, tipped with white, with a 

 subterminal bar of black ; the greater coverts are cinnamon-brown, 

 only the outer ones having huffy white spots at the tip. Total 

 length 7-5 inches, culmen 6-75, wing 3-5, tail 2-9, tarsus 1. 



Hah. Interior of Australia, Victoria, and the Southern Pro- 

 vince. 



a. S ad. sk. Central Australia. " The Capt. Sturt [P.l. (T-^-pe 



Dep6t,lat.29°40'; Jime of species.) 

 9, 1845." 



b. S ad. sk. Interior of Australia. Gould CoUection. 



c. 2 ^^- sk. Interior of Australia. J. Gould, Esq. 



d,e. cj 5 ad. sk. AustraUa (Coc^ere// Coll.). F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.], 



4. Cinclosoma castanothorax. 



Cinclosoma castaneothorax, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 139, Aves, pi. 

 vi. ; id. B. Austr. fol. Suppl. pi. 32; id. Handb. B. Amtr. i. p. 438 

 (1>G5; ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 187 (1878). 



Cinclosoma c-astaneithorax, B2). Consp. i. p. 278 (1850). 



Cinclosoma erythrothorax, Sharpe, Ibis, 1881, p. 60-5 {err.). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above chestnut-brown, 

 the head and neck umbcr-brown, overshadowing the mantle slightly ; 

 inner coverts of the lesser series brown, the remainder glossy" black 

 tipped with white, including the bastard- wing feathers and the pri- 

 mary-coverts : the innermost of the greater coverts rufous-brown 

 with a blackish centre ; quills dark brown, the primaries externallv 

 lighter brown, with a bar of buffy white across the centre of these 



