ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, No. 6 45 
on each side, fringed with olive green ; wing dark brown, but shewing 
that colour in the centres only of the coverts and secondaries, which 
are also paler and tinged with rufous ; primaries narrowly edged 
with grey ; cheeks brown with many black hairs and at the gape 
rufous brown ; ear coverts brown, with paler shaft streaks ; 
chin and throat uniform dusky, passing into the pale rufous 
brown which forms an undefined zone across the upper breast ; 
lower breast and abdomen pale cinnamon, changing into pale 
dull yellow on the under tail coverts and lowermost flank feathers ; 
tail beneath slate-brown, with white shafts ; thigh brown ; under 
wing coverts brownish white, faintly edged with yellowish, quills 
beneath edged with silky white, which on the innermost primaries 
is tinged with fulvous ; bill and feet, black. Length, 153 mm. ; 
culm en. 14 ; wing, 88 ; tail, 78 ; tarsus, 23. 
The bird was shot by Mr. A. Meston on one of the spurs of 
Mount Sophia, and carried for some time in his pocket, a circum- 
stance which may be pleaded in extenuation of possible errors of 
description. 
