678 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on a 



female. Under parts wliite, the throat- and breast-feathers 

 with brownish-black shaft-streaks; sides of the belly and 

 flanks slightly washed with buff ; quills brownish with pale 

 margins to the outer webs ; wing-coverts blackish-brown, 

 margined with white when freshly moulted ; under wing- 

 coverts white ; tail-feathers dark grey, with a black sub- 

 terminal band and tipped with white. 



Iris yellowish-white ; bill pinkish-cinnamon-brown, darker 

 along the culmen ; legs pinkish-cinnamon. 



(^ . Total length, measured in the flesh, 5*0 inches; culmen 

 from gape 0*65 ; wing 2*05 ; tail 1'8; tarsus 0*8. 



? . Total length, measured in the flesh, 4*5 inches ; culmen 

 from gape 0*6; wing 1*85 : tail 1*65 ; tarsus 0*78. 



a-h. (^ ? . Bernier Island, 23rd June - 6th July. 

 (Including tijpes of the species.) 



[Balston's Scrub-Wren M'as fairly plentiful on Bernier 

 Island. It was also believed to have been seen around 

 Carnarvon. — G. C. S.] 



AcANTHlZA INORNATA (Goul(l). 



Acanthiza inornata Math. p. 74. 



Ad. Dale River, 8th Jan. 



Iris pale yellow. 



This paler bird from Beverley, W. Australia, bears out the 

 distinctions pointed out by Mr. North between this species 

 and A. master si North. 



Acanthiza mastersi North. 



Acanthiza mastersi ]Math. p. 75. 



a-cL $ et imm. King River, 7th Dec.-15th Feb. 



Iris pale straw-yellow in the adult; grey or greenish-white 

 in the young ; bill black ; legs dark brown. 



Immature examples differ from the adult in having the 

 feathers of the throat and fore-neck with narrow dusky 

 margins, the general colour above darker broAvn, the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts reddish olive-brown, instead of olive- 

 brown, and the greater wing-coverts edged with rufous. 



[Masters' Thorn-Bill was abundant in the south-west. — 

 G. C. S.'] 



