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mn- MKGALURUS Twelve tail feathers ; tail longer than wing, 



H, KrainlneOSi ( 'Id. (Sphenoeacua gramineus), Grass-bird. 



k brown; secondaries bla buff; fore nee k and lower 



throat more or less distinctly streaked with dark brown. 

 Total length, 5*73 in. ; bill, 0'5 in. ; wing, 2*3 in. : tail, 25 in. 

 Bab. . :: 4. :. 



184. HU u'al.'irtolrs. Temm - totes), Tawny Grass-bird. 



k brown and black : fore-neck and lower throat not Bpotted or 

 .•■<! ; head more rufesceut. 



J Length, 6*5 in ; cnlmen, 0*6 in. : wing, 2 (i in. ; tail, .">.*> in. 

 Bab. : I. 2, ::. i. ti, 7. 



1 IRIGMA. Twelve tail feathers ; wing much longer than tail. 



185 O. rnblicata Lath., Rock Warbler. 



leral colour above sooty-brown : upper tail coverts and tail 



feathers blackish, with narrow pale margiua to tips of latter; head 



like back, tin- frontal plumes pale rufous, tipped with dusky brown ; 



throat ashy whitish, mottled witli dusky bases; rest of under sur- 



eep ferruginous. 



rotal length, 5'75 in. ; cnlmen, 0*6 in. ; wing, 2*6 in. ; tail, 2*4 in. 



M. .i.. : :;. 4. 



(iroup — Cisticohe : Grass- Warblers. 



Icanthizae and Sericornes weaken the unity of this group heeauseof 

 their likeness to the foreign Willow -Warblers (Phylloscopi). — 

 Sharpe 



Genus CIS [TCOLA.— Tail strongly graduated or rounded. 



186. 4 . rxilis. \ i_ and EJors. (including also C. ruficeps, C. lineo- 

 capilla, and (' isura), Grass-Warbler. 

 Sandy hull, much stripe. 1. 



According i.. hi. I; Bowdler-Sharpe, C. ruficeps (Rufous-headed 



- Warbler), C. lineocapilla (Lineated Grass* Warbler), and ( '. 



isura (Square tailed Gi tse Warbler) are seasonal and sex variations 



of < . exflis. *' In Australia the full-plumaged males have rufous 



head-, the females Btriped heads, and the winter plumage of both 



to !>'■ blackish, with streaked backa and head 

 ruficeps is adult male; < '. exilis is tin- bird in full winter plumage, 



while ' '. isura is only the square tailed Bummer-plumaged bin 



i igna, Old. In Ramsay'* List a- found in New South Wales, 

 hut marked doubtful. No specimen in Australian Museum. 

 II .1.. : I. -J. :;. i. 5, 8. 



CHTHONICOLa Tail quite even; tarsus scutellated j first 

 primary long hah length of whole \ 



187 i . sa-iiiala. Lath . Little Field -Wren. 



Plumage olive-brown; tbroal and undei verj pale yel« 



lowish, with broad black streaks, broader on breast and -i.i. - ; under 



1 1 ' M. \ e||i.\\ . 



Bab. : :• 



U I /. \ Tailq scutellated ; first primary 



..u and thort halt length Of Second primary. 



18S \. nana Via. an. I Hoi - . Little lit 



I itrictl} aubterminal ; threat rufescent, streaked with 

 whitish shaft lines j upp . .nit" onn olive-gre< 



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