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down tlie centre of the feathers; lemaiuder of the under surface 

 deep rufous ; the lower abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts 

 tawny buff, with a few rufous shaft-stripes and bars ; under wing- 

 coverts dull rufous, with oval spots of creamy buif ; primaries 

 dark brown, tipped with whitish and barred on the inner web 

 with rufous ; tail greyish above, browner beneath, all the feathers 

 barred across and tipped with rufous.'"* 



RemarJcs. Not having a young specimen from N. S. W., the 

 above description has been taken from the British Museum 

 Catalogue. The following descriptions, however, are from a 

 fine series in the Australian Museum of the young, and adult 

 female, from King George's Sound ; but although differing in 

 some respects from the New South Wales birds, they can 

 scarcely lay claim to be considered a distinct species. 



8-pecimen No. 1 jui\ K.G.S. — Above slaty blue tinged with 

 brown, tail dark brown tinged with ashy, the inner webs and the 

 under surface dark brown, the central portion of the inner w^ebs 

 barred, and that of the outer spotted with rufous, the spots 

 being obsolete on the two central and on the outer web of tw^o 

 external feathers, a few of the upper tail-coverts also spotted 

 near the base with rufous ; all the feathers of upper surface 

 broadly tipped with rufous ; feathers of the head and neck 

 rufous, with a blackish brown shaft-line and base, giving a 

 streaked appearance ; forehead buff tinged with rufous ; throat 

 buff ; sides of the neck and lower part of the ear-coverts buff 

 washed with rusty rufous, deepest in tint behind the ear-coverts ; 

 lores, forepart of the cheeks, sides of the head, and ear-coverts 

 brownish black ; chest buff, rufescent on the breast, and becoming 

 rufous on the remainder of the under surface, being lighter on 

 the lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts, and deep- 

 est on the central portions, sides, and flanks ; all the feathers 

 centered with a shaft-line of brownish black, which widens into 

 narrow stripes on the chest ; the flanks crossed with ashy brown 

 bars triangular in form, the axillaries and outer series of the 

 under wing-coverts dark brown with oval spots of pale rufous ; 

 the remainder of the under Aving-coverts brown, washed with 

 rufous, and tipped and spotted with a lighter tint; primaries 

 above blackish brown ; secondaries washed with ashy ; all the 

 quills barred on the central portion of their inner webs with light 

 rufous, and with the primary coverts having the tips margined 

 with buff narrowly edged with white ; bill bluish horn-colour ; 

 culmen darker, lower mandible whitish, at the tip horn-colour ; 

 legs and feet flesh grey. Total length 12-3 inches, wing 97, 

 tail 5-3, tarsus 1-55, bill 0-63, culmen 0-73. 



* Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. i, p. 399 (1874). 



