336 CERTHno^. 



Adult ftmale. Smaller in size ; feathers on fore neck bordered with 

 dark rusty red instead of blackish brown. 



Immature. Feathers of flanks with pale tips ; feathers of throat 

 pale buff, with small blackish-brown tips. 



cJ ad. Culmen 0-7 inch, wing 3-55, tail 2-7, tarsus I'O. 



2 ad. „ 0-63 „ „ 3-40, „ 2-3, „ 0-9. 



Hah. West Australia. 



a. cJ ad.sk. West Australia, Aug. 11 , Evton Collection. 



1842 (J. Gould). 



b. 2 ^^- sk. West Australia (J. Eytou Collection. 



Gould). 



c. d. S 2 fid. sk. West Australia. F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 e. Imm. sk. West Australia. F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 /. cS imm. sk. King George's Souud. M. Boucard [C.]. 



5. Climacteris leucophsea. 



Certhia leucophtea, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxxvi (1801). 



Certhia leucoptera, Lath, {teste Gray). 



Certhia picumnus, III. Mus. Berl. 



New-Holland Nuthatch, Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 78 (1822). 



CHmacteris picumnus, Vig. ^- Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. 1826, p. 295 ; 



rew?». Fl. Col. 281. fig. 1 (1838) ;' Gould, B. Austr. pi. 98. 

 Glyciphila ocidaris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 154, 1867, p. 976. 

 The Common Creeper, Letcin, Birds New Holl. pi. 25. 

 Climacteris leucopheea, Strickl. Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. xi. p. 336 



(1843) ; Beichenb. Handh. spec. Orn., Scans, no. 634, pi. 565 ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 145 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 184, no. 2521 ; Gould, Handb. 



B. Austr. i. p. 605 ; E. P. Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1878, 



p. 191. 

 CUmacteris scandens, Goidd, B. Austr. pi. 94 {cf. Beichenb. I. c). 



Adult male. All the upper parts rufous or earth-brown ; hind neck 

 and centre of head shading iuto dark brownish grey ; quills brown 

 with a central band of buff, which is succeeded by a dark brown 

 broad subtcrminal one ; tail brown, all the feathers except the 

 central pair with a broad subtermiual band of dark brown ; lores 

 blackish ; sides of head, including a conspicuous superciliary stripe, 

 fawn-colour ; feathers of ear-coverts pale brown, broadly edged with 

 brown ; chin, cheeks, and upper throat ])ale buff ; feathers on centre 

 of throat whitish, with irregular subtcrminal cross markings of 

 blackish brown ; sides of neck and upper breast greyish buff ; under 

 tail-coverts and axillaries reddish buff, each feather with three or 

 four irregular dark brown cross bars : under tail-coverts pale brown, 

 edged with reddish buff; all the feathers of the breast, sides, flanks, 

 and abdomen having a longitudinal central stripe of duU white, this 

 stripe bordered on either side by a line of black-brown, the whole 

 feather broadly edged with pale buff; "'iris, bill, and feet blackish 

 brown" {Gould). Length 6 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3*5-3-7, tail 

 2-5-2-7, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Feathers of centre of throat white, with broad 

 edges and tips of rufous or pale chestnut. 



