;i8. CIXCLOKHAMPHUS. 4i;iy 



p. 205, no. 2903 (1869); Diyyles, Orn. Austr. text to pi. 40 



(1869) ; liamsmj, Proc. Linn. 8oc. N. S. W. ii. p. 186 (1878). 

 Cinclorhamphus cautatoris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 135. 

 Ciiiclorhamphus cantillaus, Gould, B. Austr. fol. iii. pi. 75 (1848) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 168 (1848); Bp. Consp. i. p. 279 (1850); 



Reiehcnh. Vrif/. Neuholl. p. 83 (1850) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. 



i. p. 305 (18(;5); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 205, no. 2904 (1869); 



iJkjyles, Orn. Austr. pi. 46. fig. 2 (1809) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Sac. 



N. .S'. jr. ii. p. 186 (1878). 



Adah. General colour ahovo brown, the feathers slightly mottled 

 with fulvous-brown margins ; head distinctly more hoary than the 

 back ; wing-coverts like the back, and edged in the same manner, 

 those near the margin of the wing hoary whitish ; quiUs light brown, 

 edged with fulvous-brown and with whitish at the tips ; upper 

 tail-coverts ashy brown, with darker centres to the feathers ; tail- 

 feathers brown, with dusky cross bars under certain lights, mar- 

 gined with whity brown, the outermost whitish along the outer web, 

 on the centre feathers a slight shade of ashy ; lores, feathers above 

 the eye, and eyelid hoary ; below the eye a black spot ; ear-coverts 

 fulvescent, the hinder portion brown with hoary centres to the 

 feathers ; cheeks and throat blackish brown, with a few whity- 

 brown feathers intermixed ; remainder of under surface dusky 

 brown, with whity- brown margins to a few of the feathers ; the fore 

 neck and chest more broadly edged with whity brown, and conse- 

 quently ligliter in appearance ; thighs and under tail-coverts whity 

 brown, the latter with dark brown centres to the feathers ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries dusky brown, the edge of the wing whity 

 brown ; quills pale brown below, creamy white along the inner 

 web ; " bill, inside of mouth and tongue black ; feet Hesh-brown ; 

 iris hazel " {Gould). Total length 9-2 inches, culmeu 0-9, wing 4-25, 

 tail 4, tarsus 1"45. 



Obs. The specimens with the sooty-black under surface have the 

 bill black, and appear to be in breeding-phimage. In winter dress 

 the under surface is overspread with ashy, wliich gradually dis- 

 appears. 



Youni/ birds are much more mottled above and of j-ellowish buff 

 colour, being pale fulvous below, with the throat white and a tinge of 

 deeper sandy buff on the chest ; in the centre of the abdomen a 

 blackish patch. 



The female, acc(n-ding to Gould, is less than half the size of the 

 male, is similar in colour ; but the feathers being more broadly mar- 

 gined with brownish white impart to her a paler hue than her mate : 

 the under surface is also much lighter, and the patch in the centre 

 of the abdomen is ranch smaller. 



As the size of the abdominal patch seems to me to vary in propor- 

 tion to the amount of remains of winter plumage, I cannot believe 

 that C. cantillans is really distinct. 



Hah. South Australia and Victoria to New South Wales, and 

 along the east coast as high as Rockingham Bay. 



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