THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
size, and has the frontal tuft of feathers more pronounced, though nothing like 
the figure given by Gould. 
It is acknowledged that the rufous specimens in the marmoratus group are 
females, and they have the bills smaller than the males. Consequently, as my 
“ plumiferus ” is a rufous bird it may also be a female (being an old skin it is 
unfortunately not sexed), and as it has a small bill that feature might be larger 
in the male. 
For the present I am not recognising Micropodargus plumiferus neglectus. 
