DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SrECIES OF OOLLYRIOCINOLA — NORTH. 49 
DESCRIPTION of a NEW SPECIES of COLLYRIOCINCLA 
from QUEENSLAND. 
By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.S., 
Ornithologist to the Australian Museum. 
COLLYRIOCINCLA CERVINIVENTRIS, sp. UOV. 
Adult male . — General colour above greyish-brown very slightly 
shaded with olive, clearer grey on the head ; wing coverts like 
the back, the quills brown washed with olive on their outer webs, 
and externally edged with grey ; tail brown, the two centre 
feathers, and the outer webs of the remainder, shaded with grey; 
feathers in front of the eye dull white; ear-coverts pale brown with 
narrow white shaft streaks ; cheeks and throat white, slightly 
tinged with buff; remainder of the under surface and under 
wing-coverts pale fawn colour, the feathers on the chest shaded 
with grey; bill and legs fleshy-brown. Total length 7*2 inches; 
wing 3*7, tail 3*2, bill 0*87, depth at nostril 0'25, tarsus 1*02. 
7/ad. — Dawson River, Queensland. 
Type . — In the Australian Museum, Sydney, 
Obs . — Another specimen, probably a female has the primary- 
coverts and outer webs of the secondaries washed with rufous- 
buff*. This is the inland representative of C. rufigaster of the 
coastal brushes, from which it may be distinguished by its 
longer and thinner bill, and by its very much paler upper 
and under surface. In all the specimens from this district — 
three in number — the distinctive characters of this species are 
constant. 
Eggs of this closely allied species were described by me in the 
“ Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds,”* under the name of 
C. rufigaster. 
The type of C, rufigaster was obtained in the brushes of the 
Clarence River, New .South Wales. An adult male from this 
locality measures: — total length 7*3 inches; wing 3*9, tail 3*3, 
bill 0‘8, depth at nostril 0*3, tarsus 1*08. A large series of 
specimens from the coastal districts of Queensland, as far north 
as Cairns, vary only in wing measurement from 3*8 to 3*9 
inches. 
* Austr. Mus. Cat. xii., 1889. • Nests and Eggs, p. 83. 
