16 
Io. 
Il. 
H 
Ov 
16. 
. Breast and abdomen sooty brown, 
. Head all round, 
. Upper part of head only black; frontal edge, lores, 
PASSERES 
some of the feathers with narrow 
white edges. Head all yound and throat whtte . é 
Under parts white, with blackish shaft-streaks. Pileum black . 
Breast and abdomen pure white 
nape and throat ashy white, most feathers with a 
more ov less distinct grey shaft-line . 2 Lush glt oe oes 
Top of the head blackish grey, with hoary whitish margins, throat 
and jugulum blackish grey, with broad white edges to the feathers 
. Feathers of lower parts with distinct dusky longitudinal streaks 
Lower parts without trace of dusky streaks 
. Bill entirely horn-brown. Top and sides of the head dusky; throat 
only white, streaked with dusky in female. (Wing bar rufous.) . 
Bull partly, at base, yellow . 
. Pileum and sides of head dark smoky, throat and foreneck imma- 
culate white. cer evn eee ees 
Pileum and sides of head brown, throat and foreneck distinctly 
stveaked with dusky 
. Head above black in both sexes . 
Head above white in male, pale grey in female 
. Bill for its basal half yellow 
Bill only at extreme base, about one-fourth of whole length, yellow 
. Head all vound and throat black 
Head above and nape only black, sides of head ae throat white. 
Head all vound, including throat, black . 
Head above and nape only black, sides of head dusky, throat white. 
Wing-band rufous. (Head all vound, including throat, pure white 
in male; top and sides of head pale grey, throat white, narrowly 
streaked with dusky in female) . 
Wing-band pure white (sexual differences as above) . 
superciliary 
sivipe, cheeks and eay coverts white. 
Top and sides of head uniform black . 
. Wing-band pure white . 
Wing-band wholly or partly rufous 
. Bill shorter, stout. Wing-band uniform rufous . 
Bill longer, slender. Wing-band partly rusty, partly white (?) 
. Wing-band pure white . 
W ing-band wholly or partly aie 
Bill shorter, stout. Wing-band uniform rufous . er 
Bill longer, slender, Wing-band partly rusty, partly white (?) 
1. Neositta chrysoptera (Latham). 
Io. 
I2. 
6. 
iS} 
x 
aA np pF O © 
oN. 
2 IN: 
. N. PAPUENSIS of (?). 
. N. PAPUENSIS Q (?) 
3) 
. N. aLBIFRONS Q. 
N. ALBIFRONS of. 
oF 
(N. PILEATA). 
(N. CHRYSOPTERA). 
7 
. N. CHRYSOPTERA Of ad. 
. N. CHRYSOPTERA Q. 
. (N. srrrata). 
a (Ne 
. (N. STRIATA STRIATA). 
LEUCOCEPHALA). 
. (N. STRIATA MAGNIROSTRIS). 
_N. 
STRIATA STRIATA 9. 
N, 
N 
N. 
STRIATA STRIATA GO. 
STRIATA MAGNIROSTRIS ©. 
STRIATA MAGNIROSTRIS Or 
N. LEUCOCEPHALA LEUCOCEPHALA,. 
ILLEUCOCEPHALA ALBATA. 
. (Males). 
. (Females). 
SINE 
PILEATA ILLEUCOPTERA. 
14. 
. N. PILEATA PILEATA. 
. PILEATA TENUIROSTRIS, 
. N. PILEATA LEUCOPTERA. 
16. 
. PILEATA PILEATA. 
PILEATA TENUIROSTRIS, 
Sitta chrysoptera Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl. p. 32 (1801) (Nova Hollandia). 
Fig. Gould, Birds Australia, Vol. 4, pl. ror. 
Hab. Coast districts of Southern and Eastern Australia (South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales 
and Queensland, northward to Port Denison). 
