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Ramsay, Ihix, 186G, p. 334 (Port Denison) ; Mathew, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. W. x. p. 335 (1886: Claremont Isl.) ; Heine § Reichen. 

 Nomencl. Mm. Hein. p. 337 (1890). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, a little darker on the 

 rump and central upper tail-coverts ; sides of rump and lateral upper 

 tail-coverts pure white ; wing-coverts like the back, the lesser wing- 

 coverts sepia-brown, extending round the bend of the wing to the 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts, the latter fringed with white at 

 the ends ; the greater coverts tipped with white, forming a wing- 

 band ; quills ashy brown, blackish along the outer webs and at the 

 tips, the shafts white, the inner primaries white towards the base 

 of the outer web, the secondaries internally white, the inner ones 

 with a good deal of white on the inner web and at the tip, the long 

 inner secondaries brown like the back ; the lour centre tail-feathers 

 brown, the next pair white, with more or less brown on the inner 

 web, the remainder white ; crown of head and entire hind-neck 

 cinnamon-rufous, spreading slightly on to the mantle ; frontal band 

 white, extending above the eye, and separated from the rufous head 

 by a narrow band of black, also continued to above the eye ; a loral 

 streak of black from the base of the bill to the eye ; sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, and entire under surface white ; a narrow line 

 of black separating the white of the sides of the face from the rufous 

 of the head and neck, and continued down the sides of the neck, 

 where there is a black patch ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white ; quills below light ashy : " bill dark reddish brown ; naked 

 part of legs above the tarsi dark greenish grey ; tarsi light grey ; 

 toes blackish brown ; iris very dark browu " (J. Gould). Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 4-1, tail 1*55, tarsus 1*1, middle 

 toe and claw 0*75. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but not so brightly coloured, 

 and the red of the head and neck not so pronounced. Total length 

 6 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 4-1, tail 1*5, tarsus 1. 



The specimen recorded below from Amoy still bears Swinhoe's 

 label, but was determined by him as Hiaticula cantiana. It seems 

 to me to belong undoubtedly to this species, having the rufous colour 

 of the head extending over the hind-neck, and it shows no trace of 

 the white collar which is characteristic of u$E. cantiana ; it has the 

 loral .streak cinnamon like the head, and the patch at the side of the 

 neck is also cinnamon. This I believe to be a character of young 

 birds, as it is seen in all the immature ones in the Collection. The 

 only other difference between the young and old birds is the mottled 

 appearance, the feathers having rufous margins. 



Hal*. Australia and Tasmania, extending to the islands of Torres 

 Straits and the south coast of New Guinea. Accidental in Xew 

 Zealand. Probably ranging north to China. 



a. //. Ad. sk. [w. Tasmania, Sept. J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



4*15-4-4]. [P.]. 



ft A<1. sk. [w. Tasmania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. 



396 1'. I. 



