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AMYTORNIS HOUSEI (Milligan), Black Grass-Wen. 
Kimberley. Collector — Dr. F. M. House 
“ Appendix E to Report on Kimberley Exploring Expedition,” page 8. 
Types. — (Nos. 4766 and 4768 — Male and Female. Co-type — 4767 
Male) in W.A. Museum, Perth. 
This handsome bird was discovered by Dr. F. M. House, Medical 
Officer and Naturalist of the exploring expedition that vis ted Kim- 
berley in 1901, and in his honor it was named by Mr. Milligan. 
The predominating hues of the plumage are black and deep 
chestnut, relieved on the head, neck, throat and chest with regular 
silky white longitudinal striations. 
The new bird affords another instance of what is known as 
“ protective coloring,” as its habitat is amongst the piled up masses of 
red and black sandstone found in the region traversed by the expedi- 
tion, and with these colored rocks the plumage of the bird harmonises 
so perfectly that the birds are quite indistinguishable while motionless. 
AMYTORNIS GIGANTURA (Milligan), Western Grass-Wren. 
Mount Magnet, Murchison, Nov., 1899.— Collector, John T. Tunney. 
“Victorian Naturalist,” May 7th, 1901, Vol. XVIII, No. 1. 
Type. — (No. 1529) in W.A. Museum, Perth. 
ACANTHIZA PALLIDA (Milligan), Pallid Tit— 
Wurarga, Yalgoo goldfield, Murchison, September, 1903.— Collector, 
F. Lawson. 
“ * he Emu,” Vol. Ill, 1903, page nr. 
A new Acanthiza was secured by Mr. Fred. Lawson at Wurarga, 
Yalgoo Goldfields, in September, 1903. Wurarga is about 100 miles 
inland from the western coast, well beyond the confines of the char- 
acteristic lain belt and in about the same latitude as the boundary line 
between Queensland and New South Wales. The new species is 
closely allied to Acanthiza chrysorrhoa , and bears affinity in the same 
degree to that species as A. tenuirostris does to A. reguloides . It is in 
fact, a pallid and miniature form of A. chrysorrhoa. Mr. Milligan did not 
declare it to be the Western form ol the latter species, as our coastal form 
in tempoiate districts much resembles the Eastern one, but rather 
regarded it as the Northern and interior one. 
