SITTELLA LH COITLKA (Gould). 



WHITE-WINGED SITTELLA. 



I v I FFKRING! from Sittella Chrysoptera only in the colouring of the: plumage, tliis may be justly 

 * ' considered the northern representative of thai bird. It is found in small families of from four to 



twelve, principally in the Oobourg Peninsula, though even there not abundant. In general habits and 



characteristics it is the same as the others belonging to this genus. 



The male has the forehead, crow n of the head and occiput, deep black ; w ings, dark brown, with 

 a broad hand of white crossing the primaries near the base; tail, black, the lateral feathers tipped with 

 white ; throat and under surface, light grey : back, greyish-brown, the centre of each feather streaked 

 with blackish-brown ; irides, ochre-yellow ; bill, yellow, tipped with black ; legs and feet, yellow. 



Total length, 4 inches; bill, " „, inch: wing. 3 inches; tail, 1^ inch; tarsi, U / M inch. 



Habitat: The north coast of Australia. 



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SITTELLA LEUCOCEPHALA (Gould). 



WH1TE-HEA DEI) SITTELLA. 



AVE in the plumage, no special characteristics are possessed by this bird to distinguish it from the 

 other SittellcB. 



Gould mentions that specimens from Moreton Bay differed slightly in colouring from some 

 procured in the interior during Leichhardt's expedition to Port Essington, but the dissimilarity was not 

 sufficiently ^reat to justify their classification as a new species. 



Lower part of the head and neck, white ; top of the head, grey; back, grey; each feather 

 ha a darker centre ; under surface, greyish-white ; wings, dark brown, crossed by a band of pale 

 rusty-red; tail, brownish-black, tipped with white; irides, yellow; base of the bill, orange-yellow ; 

 feet, bright yellow. 



Total length, 4^ inches; bill, | inch; wing, 2f inches; tail, l£ inch; tarsi, k inch. 

 Hahitat : North-east coast and interior. 



SITTELLA CHEYSOPTERA (Swains). 



ORANGE- WINGED SITTELLA. 



rilHERK is scarcely a pari of New South Wales in which the Orange-winged Sittella is not found, 

 J- usually in small groups of from four to eight. It may be seen darting from one tree to another, 

 but further than this the powers of flight are very seldom used. It much prefers to run over the 

 1 •ranches and trunks of the trees, which it does with as great ease and swiftness in one position as in 

 another, very often even traversing the trunks head downward. 



