438 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



with pure white ; under tail-coverts black for four-fifths of 

 their length on the outer web, their inner webs and tips 

 white ; eyes brown ; tarsi olive ; toes black. 



Total length 7^ inches; bill f; wing 3f ; tail 3 J; tarsi 1|-. 



Sp. 274. CINCLOSOMA CASTANEOTHORAX, Gould. 

 Chestnut-breasted Ground Thrush. 



Cinclosoma castaneothorax, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, 1848, p. 139, 



Avcs, pi. 6. 

 castaneithoraXf Bonap. Cousp. Gen. Av., p. 278, Cinclosoma, 



sp. 4. 



Cinclosoma castaneothorax, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol. vol. 

 Supplement, pi. 



For a knowledge of this richly coloured and very distinct 

 species of Ground-Thrush science is indebted to Charles 

 Coxen, Esq., of Brisbane, who discovered it in the scrubby 

 belts of trees growing on the table-land to the northward of 

 the Darling Downs. In size it nearly equals the Cinclosoma 

 casianeo7iotum , but differs from that bird in the buffy stripe over 

 the eye, in the colouring of the back, and in the band of 

 chestnut-brown which crosses the breast. To my regret, only 

 a single male specimen has yet been forwarded to me ; I 

 trust, however, that through Mr. Coxen or some other lover of 

 ornithology I may ere long be favoured with an example of 

 the female. 



Crown of the head, ear-coverts, back of the neck, and upper 

 tail-coverts brown ; stripe over the eye and another from the 

 base of the lower mandible, down the side of the neck, white ; 

 shoulders and wing-coverts black, each feather with a spot of 

 white at the tip ; all the upper surface, the outer margins of 

 the scapularies and a broad longitudinal stripe on their inner 

 webs next the shaft deep rust-red ; primaries, secondaries, 

 and the central portion of the scapularies dark brown ; tail 

 black, all but the two central feathers largely tipped with 



