Its flight, which is performed by a skimming motion of the wings, serves to show to great 

 advantage the brown marking of the primaries. 



Opinions are greatly divided as to whether this bird subsists without water as many other 

 insectivorous birds do. At all events it very seldom, if ever, rseorts to the water-holes. 



The breeding season, lasts during August and the four following months. Two flesh-coloured 

 eggs, thickly blotched all over with reddish-brown, are laid in a nest composed of opossum hair, 

 deep down in a hollow branch. 



The male has the crown of the head blackish-brown ; lores, black ; line over the eye and throat, 

 dull buff; at the base of the throat a few indistinct blackish-brown spots; all the upper surface 

 brown; primaries, dark brown, all but the first crossed by a broad band of buff; tail, brown; all 

 the under surface greyish-brown, each feather of the chest and abdomen having a stripe of dull white, 

 bounded on either side with black, running down the centre ; irides, bill, and feet, blackish-brown. 



The female may be distinguished from the male by the spots at the base of the throat 

 being rufous, instead of blackish-brown. 



Habitats : South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales. 



