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bister brown; back and upper tail-coverts tinged brownish olive ; lower breast 
tinged and flanks and abdomen entirely ecru-olive ; under tail-coverts chamois. 
Tliis race was described as differing from lineata in being 
“much darker above and browner below.” In specimens 
examined only the narrow margins of the throat and breast 
feathers are brown, the lower ventral surface is greenish as 
distinct from yellow in typical lineata. Birds from Kangaroo 
Island and South Australia are essentially similar to those 
from Victorian localities. 
ACANTHIZA CHRYSORRHOA (Quoy and Gairmard). 
This species is almost as widely distributed as A. pusilla, 
but apparently it is uncommon except in coastal areas. It has 
not been collected from any of the islands of Bass Strait or 
from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, although a fairly 
common form in Tasmania. 
A feature of the species is the extension of the range of 
some races beyond the limits of normal faunal areas. 
Acanthiza chrysorrhoa clirysorrlioa (Quoy and Gairmard). 
Saxicola chrysorrhoa Quoy and Gairmard, Voy. Astrol., i, 1830, p. 198; 
New South Wales. 
Acanthiza leighi Grant, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club., xxiii, 1909, p. 73; 
Lithgow, New South Wales. 
Range. — From south-eastern Queensland to south of Sydney, New South 
Wales; west to Cobbora. 
Specimens Examined. — Thirty-four from the following localities : New 
South Wales: Warialda, Scone, Cobbora, Lithgow, Tarana, Helensburgh, 
Roseville, Lilyvale, Sutherland, Liverpool, Bowral, Goulburn. 
Measurements. — Thirty-one adult specimens of both sexes: wing, 58-62 
(59 9) ; tail, 36-42 (39 8) ; exposed culmen, 9-11 (9 7) ; tarsus, 16-17 
(16 7). 
Male. — Narrow band across forehead, lores, and superciliary stripe white, 
most feathers very finely tipped black, appearing as a black spot immediately 
in front of eyes ; ear-coverts dull white with narrow brownish margins ; fore 
part of crown black, each feather broadly tipped white with indistinct dusky 
margins ; feathers of posterior part of crown blackish brown, broadly margined 
light greyish olive, merging on nape into citrine-drab of mantle and lower 
back ; wings fuscous, outer margins of quills lighter, from whitish on primaries 
to citrine-drab on inner secondaries, and margins of upper coverts light 
greyish olive; upper tail-coverts strontian yellow, longer feathers distally 
tinged greenish; tail basally strontian yellow, each feather with white shaft; 
tail distally black, each feather broadly tipped drab except for white spot at 
tip of inner web of lateral feathers; chin and throat white, some feathers on 
sides of throat finely tipped brownish; remainder of ventral surface straw 
yellow, richer on flanks, tinged drab on sides of breast, and some feathers 
