THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
1910 (W.A.) ; Howe, %b., p. 230 (Vic.) ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 79, 1910 ; 
Macgmivray, Emu, Vol. X., pp. 23, 94, 97, 1910 (N.S.W.) ; Broadbent, ib., p. 234 
(N.Q.) ; G. F. HiU, ib., p. 270, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; Wilson, ib., Vol. XII., p. 32, 1912 
(Vic.) ; Stone, ib., p. 117 (Vic.) ; G. F. HiU, ib., p. 255, 1913 (N.T.) ; Chandler, 
Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 37, 1913 (Vic.) ; MacgiUivray, ib., p. 159, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, 
ib., p. 206 (N.T.) ; BurreU, ib., p. 216 (N.S.W.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 42, 
1914 (N.T.) ; Cheney, ib., p. 206, 1915 (Vic.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 219, 
1917 (N.T.). 
JSgotheles lunulata Jardine and Selby, lUus. Ornith., Vol. III., pi. 149, 1835 : New South 
Wales. 
JSgotheles australis Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 338, 1837 : New South Wales. 
Mgotheles cristatus Gray, List Genera Birds, p. 7, 1840. 
Mgotheles leucogaster Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1844, p. 106 : Port Essington, 
Northern Territory ; id.. Birds Austr., pt. xvi. (Vol. II., pi. 2), 1844 ; Bonaparte, Consp. 
Gen. Ay., Vol. I., p. 58, 1850 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 81, 1865 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Limi. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 178, 1878 ; id., ib., Ser. 2, Vol. II., 
p. 166, 1887 (N.W.A.) ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 2, 1888; Le Souef, Ibis, 
1896, p. 312 (N.Q.); Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 151, 1913; 
H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XV., p. 61, 1915. 
Mgotheles rufescens (not of Salvador!) HaU, Victorian Naturahst, Vol. XVIII., p. 60, 1901 : 
Fitzroy River, North-west Australia. 
Mgotheles ruja HaU, id., ib., p. 89 ; New name for M. rufescens HaU ; id.. Emu, Vol. II,, 
p. 50, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, p. 53, 1908 ; id.. Emu, 
Vol. IX., p. 57, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; G. F. HiU, ib., Vol. X., p. 270, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; 
H. L. Wliite, ib., Vol. XV., p. 61, 1915. 
Mgotheles cristata cristata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p, 284, 1912 ; id.. List Birds 
Austr., p. 143, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 187, 1915 (Central). 
Mgotheles cristata murchisoniana Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 284, 1912 : East 
Murchison, West AustraUa ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 144, 1913. 
Mgotheles cristata leucogaster Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 284, 1912 ; id.. List 
Birds Austr., p. 144, 1913. 
Mgotheles cristata rufa Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 284, 1912 ; id.. List Birds 
Austr., p. 144, 1913; id.. South Austr. Ornith., Vol. III., p. 71, 1917 (N.W.A.). 
Distribution. AustraUa ; Tasmania (New Guinea). 
Adult female. — General colour above cinnamon with obsolete bars and mottlings of pale 
brown including the back, wings, and taU ; marginal upper wing-coverts uniform 
cinnamon ; inner-webs of the bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills dark brown, 
outer-webs cinnamon barred or mottled with pale brown, but more coarsely than 
the back ; taU more broadly barred with ciimamon and dark brown which changes 
to mottlings at the tips, the outer feathers dark brown on the inner-webs with 
pale mottled bars ; crown of head, nape, and hinder face blackish ; a double coUar 
on the hind-neck cinnamon Uke the feathers on the fore-part of the head and sides 
of the neck ; a spot of duU white feathers on the sides of the crown ; ear-coverts 
cinnamon with black shafts which are extended into hair-like tips ; the bristles 
at the base of the fore-head and in front of the eye black ; chin whitish with black 
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