1. STKIX. 305 



pt. 3, pi. 49. fig. 2 ; id. B. Attstr. i. pi. 28 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 41 ; 

 Bp. Cmisp. i. p. 64; Strickl. Orn. Syn. t). 181; Schl. Mus. P.-B. 

 Strjges, p. 7 ; Gould, Handh. B. Ausb\ i. p. 02 ; Bigqles, Oni. 

 Austr. pi. — ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 53. 

 Dcactvlostrix castanops, Kaiip, Co»fr. Orn. 18.")2, p 119- id Tr Z S 

 iv. p. 248. ' • . . . 



_ AdvU. General colour above chocolate-brown, with a very few 

 zigzag lines of white on the feathers of the upper surface, most of 

 which have also a tiny arrow-head spot of white near the tip, these 

 spots extremely small on the head and hind neck ; all the upper sur- 

 face varied here and there with rich golden buff, wherever the bases 

 of the feathers shoAv through, many of them being barred with this 

 colour, especially on the outer aspect of the scapulars, where they 

 form a kind of shoulder-patch ; wing-coverts a little darker than 

 tlie back, but marked in the same manner, the golden buff colour 

 not showing very plainly, except on the- outermost coverts and 

 bastard wing; primary-coverts deep chocolate-brown, irregularlv 

 barred with orange-buff, and slightly vermiculated with whitish 

 lines near the tips; quills dark brown, indistinctly barred with 

 golden birff, inclining to fulvous on the inner web," all these buff- 

 coloured bars more or less obscured with brown mottlings ; tail 

 dark brown, crossed with about six distinguishable bars oi^ golden 

 buff, plainer than on the wings, but yet more or less obscured with 

 brown mottlings, especially towards the tips ; facial aspect light 

 chestnut, the feathers in front of the eye black, the loral plumes also 

 slightly tipped with black ; facial ruff deep golden orange, with a 

 mesial spot of dark brown near the tip, becoming broadly tipped 

 with brown on the lower part behind the eai'-coverts, the o-ular 

 plumes more rufescent but not so broadly tipped with brown ;^ rest 

 of under surface of body golden buff, the chest-feathers ' with 

 a double spot of blackish near the tips, the flanks with larger 

 horseshoe bars of blackish, broader but less distinct at the tips of 

 the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries very deep 

 golden buff, spotted at the tips with brown like the chest, the" lower 

 series ashy brown, M'hitish at base, resembling the inner lining of 

 the quills, which are ashy brown below, barred with yellowish white 

 near the base of the inner webs ; bill yellowish brown ; feet light 

 yellow. Total length 21 inches, wing 15-2, tail 7, tarsus 3-2. 



Obs. S. castanops is a large, permanently dark form of 8. nova: 

 hoTlandicF-, to the dark race of which it is very closely allied. The 

 only differences are, in fact, the large size and the number of tail- 

 bands, which sometimes amount to as many as eight. A comparison 

 of a series of specimens of S. novcp JioUamh'ce and S. castanopx o-ives 

 the following result : — " 



Total 

 length. Wi„„ j,,ji Tarsus. Mid. toe 



m. 



S.novfP Iwllandicp.. 13-5-17 12-0-13-n 5-8-6-0 2-55-3-1 ]-5-i-9 

 .S'. ca.^fanops 15-5-20 14-4-14-8 6-9-8-0 2-95-3-25 1-95-2.15 



At the same time, light- coloured individuals of the Tasmanian 



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