The Emu. 
brow, which is white in the specimen described by Dr. Sharpe. 
In general appearance it is quite at variance with an adult of C. 
brunnea^ Gould. The throat and chest are streaked ; under tail 
coverts creamy-white; culmen, 0.85 inch; wing, 4.75 inches. 
[Bill pale grey, upper mandible slightly darker at tip ; legs and 
feet bluish-grey ; claws pale grey.] 
37. COLLYRIOCINCLA BRUNNEA (Gould), Brown Shrike-Thrush. 
Colliiriocincla brtmnca^ Gould, Birds Aust. ,foI., vol. ii., pi. 76 (1848) ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. iii., p. 291 (1877) ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vol. ii., 2nd Series, p. 167 (1887). 
a and b. Adult males, 14/10/01. 
c. Adult male, 1 8/8/01. 
a and b have the forehead clear grey ; c ruddy brown, and 
extending to nape, only partially covering the grey. In these 
male skins there is no indication of a white or rufous eyebrow. 
The range of colour in all is from pale grey to brownish-grey, 
seeming to brown with age. 
38. Anthus AUSTRALIS (Vigors and Horsfield), Pipit. 
Anthus australis, Gould, Birds Aust., foL, vol. iii., pi. 73 (1848) ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. x., p. 615 (1885). 
Two specimens of the brown variety are to hand, one of which 
shows no rufous, while the second is faintly marked with tawny 
in certain points. 
Specimen a. Adult male, 29/8/00. Lores, eyebrows, and 
under tail coverts creamy-white ; lower back and upper tail 
coverts uniform dull brown. 
Specimen b. Sex not marked. Immature bird, 29/8/00. 
Lores, eyebrow, and under tail coverts pale rufous ; lower back 
feathers and upper tail coverts brown, edged with tawny ; wing 
quills and coverts slightly rufous-marked. 
In writing of these as the brown variety, I do so as a distinguish- 
ing mark, because of the intensely rufous phase (of which I have 
skins) in a more southern part of Western Australia. The 
" brown " may reproduce a brown or a parti-coloured rufous 
bird, as in Victoria. Judging by specimens collected in Western 
Australia by the writer, the rufous bird may reproduce a much 
paler and greyer brown bird than itself Still, one meets many 
rufous birds, parents and young, and many greyish-brown birds, 
parents and young, and they may be broadly spoken of as the 
" Rufous " and the " Brown " varieties. Naturally the former is 
more a desert form. 
[Of the Pipit I see very little. I saw a pair at the Breakaway 
and another near Derby, 1/12/00.] 
39. MiRAFRA SECUNDA (Sharpe), Lesser Bush-Lark. 
Mirafra secunda, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xiii. , p. 603 
(1890). 
