INSESSOllES. 437 



chestnut on the rump ; the stripes of white over the eye and 

 down the sides of the neck less distinctly marked ; the chin, 

 throat, and breast grey instead of black ; the irides hazel, and 

 the feet leaden brown. 



Total length 9 inches ; bill 1 ; wing 4j ; tail 4 J ; tarsi 1 J. 



Sp. 273. CINCLOSOMA CINNAMOMEUM, Gould. 



Cinnamon-coloured Cinclosoma. 

 Cinclosoma cinnamomeus, Gould in Froc. of Zool. Soc, part xiv. p. 68. 



Cinclosoma cinnamomeus, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. iv. 

 pi. 6. 



For our knowledge of this new Cinclosoma we are indebted 

 to the researches of that enterprising traveller Captain Sturt, 

 who procured a single specimen during his lengthened so- 

 journ at the Depot in that sterile and inhospitable region, 

 the interior of South Australia. Since that date many other 

 examples have been sent to Europe, which have been collected 

 in other parts of the country. 



It is considerably smaller than either of its congeners, the 

 C. castaneonotum, C. jpundatiim, and C. castaneotJwrax, and, 

 moreover, differs from them in the cinnamon colom'ing of the 

 greater portion of its plumage. 



The female differs from the opposite sex in the absence of 

 the black markings of the throat, breast, and wings, those 

 parts being brownish grey. 



The whole of the upper surface, scapularies, two central 

 tail-feathers, sides of the breast, and flanks cinnamon-brown ; 

 wing-coverts jet-black, each feather largely tipped with white ; 

 above the eye a faint stripe of white ; lores and throat glossy 

 black, with a large oval patch of white seated within the 

 black, beneath the eye; under sm^face white, with a large 

 arrow-shaped patch of glossy black on the breast ; feathers 

 on the sides of the abdomen with a broad stripe of black 

 down the centre ; lateral tail-feathers jet-black, largely tipped 



