Vol II. 



1903 



J MlLLIGAN, New Calainaii/hns and Mcgalurus from W .A. 20I 



cream-coloured, with a faint tinge of pinkish-buff ; quills greyish- 

 brown, with edge of inner web cream-coloured ; tail feathers 

 (except uppermost pair) brown, with pronounced black subter- 

 minal bar and white tips. Bill and feet dark horn colour. Total 

 length, 5.25 inches; culmen, 0.5 ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 0.9. 



Type in the Western Australian Museum, Perth. 



The new species differs from fiiliginosus principally in that 

 the upper surface is a lustreless dingy brown, instead of the 

 shiny greenish-brown of that species, and that the striations are 

 narrower. The chin, throat, and chest also show more ashy 

 whiteness, and the striations on those parts are bolder and 

 extend farther down the body. The olive-yellow wash of the 

 lower portions of the body in C. fuliginosiis is supplanted with 

 a much lighter coloured wash, which inclines to whiteness on 

 the abdomen. There is scarcely any appreciable difference in 

 the external aspect of the sexes. 



The new bird was found in the sterile stony tracts on the 

 north or sheltered side of the Stirling Ranges. Its song is a 

 series of musical warbling notes, which it utters either on the 

 ground or in a low bush. It runs along the ground like a 

 mouse, and is very difficult to flush. Apparently it does not 

 leave a body scent, as C. fiiliginosus is said to do, as my Quail 

 bitch did not show any disposition to follow it, neither did 

 she show any canine signs of pleasure when the dead bird was 

 placed near her nose. The birds were very numerous in the 

 sterile places indicated, but very difficult to secure. 



I assign to it the scientific name of CalamantJnis montanellits, 

 and the vernacular one of the Rock Field-Wren. 



Megalurus STRIATUS, n. sp. 



General colour above dark brown (not fulvous), broadly 

 streaked with black down the centre of the back and mantle ; 

 rump and upper tail coverts inclined to dull fulvous, both 

 streaked with black ; forehead very faintly tinged with dull 

 rufous ; head streaked with black, but not so as to form longi- 

 tudinal lines ; wing coverts, like the back, centred with black 

 and margined with brown ; wings dark brown, with secondaries 

 blackish-brown, some of them margined with white ; tail 

 feathers dark brown ; lores blackish ; faint eyebrow whitish ; 

 cheeks and ear coverts dull whitish, slightly mottled with dusky 

 edgings to feathers ; cheeks, chin, throat, and chest whitish, 

 distinctly and regularly striated with black and brownish-black 

 centres to feathers, the striations more pronounced and broader 

 on chest ; centre of abdomen white ; sides of body and of 

 abdomen, flanks, and under tail coverts not fulvescent, but 

 washed with smoky-brown and striated with blackish-brown ; 

 shoulders of wing edged white ; axillaries and under coverts 

 creamy ; quills greyish-brown ; bill and tarsi fleshy-brown. 

 Total length, 5.25 inches ; culmen, 0.45 ; tail, 2.25 ; tarsus, 0.75. 



