Vol. XIV. 

 1915 



] Mellor, The Young of Climacteris leucophcBa. 



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with a tinge of grey on the outer webs ; the secondaries are also 

 brownish-black tipped with slaty-grey, the greater wing coverts 

 being of the latter colour. The primaries and secondaries have 

 a bar of very pale rufous-brown crossing them midway, and 

 appearing as a patch, which is conspicuous when the bird has its 

 wings expanded in flight. The tail is slaty-grey, the two central 

 feathers being wholly of that colour, while the others are more 

 or less crossed by a broad band of jet black, leaving the tips and 



Young White-throated Tree-creeper. 



FROM A PHOTO. BY A. H. E. MATTINGLEY. 



bases slaty-grey. The tips have a touch of white on the inner 

 webs, this being more pronounced on the two outer feathers. 

 The under tail coverts are pale whitish-cream, with several spots 

 of black on either side of the feathers, giving them a barred and 

 mottled appearance. The under surface is white on the throat, 

 going into cream on the chest, darkening into dark cream or pale 

 brown down the centre to the abdomen, while the flanks are 



