THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 662 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 53, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 510, 1901 ; Klitson, Emu, Vol. V., 1905, 
pp. 57-67, pis. V.-X. ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 59, 1908 ; Cook, Emu, 
Vol. Vin., p. 220, 1909 ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 139, 1915 ; Stone, ib., Vol. 
XVT., p. 44, 1916 ; Cook^ ib., p. 101. 
Menura novoBhollandice novcehollavdice Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 298, 1912 ; 
id., list Birds Austr., p. 160, 1913. 
Menura novcehollandim victorice Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 298, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 160, 1913. 
Menura novcehollatidicB intermedea Mathews, Austral Avian Rec., Vol. IH., p. 58, April 7, 
1916 : Southern New South Wales. 
DiSTRrBTjTiON. New South Wales, as far north as the Clarence River. Victoria. 
Adult rrwle. Head, hind-neck, entire back, and upper wing-coverts duslry dark brown, 
somewhat paler on the rump, and tinged with grey on the hind-neck; bastard- 
wing, primary-coverts, and outer-webs of primary-quills dark rufous-brown ; 
major upper wing-coverts and all the inner-webs of the flight-quiUs seal-brown; 
upper tail-coverts greyish ohve-brown, the long ones rust-brown ; general aspect 
of the tail above blackish, the barbs of the feathers long and very coarsely dis- 
integrated except at the base and on the outer pair of feathers, the central feathers 
consist chiefly of homy shafts with a very narrow inner-web which increases in 
width towards the tips, the outer-webs are coarsely represented by short hair-like 
barbs — ^mcreasing in length and becoming much more conspicuous at the tips, 
some of the sublateral feathers are normal at the base and have the barbs much 
extended and hair-like in texture ; the outermost pair have the webs normal, 
the outer ones narrow and the inner ones broad, outer-webs and tips blackish, 
inner-webs pale greenish-brown, tinged with rust-brown notches and edged with 
black, the margins more or less disintegrated and recoil, the tips curved outw^ards, 
black and assume more or less the shape of a spatule, the rust-brown notches 
appear to be formed by the barbs of the feathers having been denuded of the 
barbules ; sides of face greyish-brown ; throat and fore-neck chocolate-browm ; 
breast and abdomen grey with paler margins to some of the feathers on the former ; 
inclining to hair-brown on the thighs ; under tail-coverts, sides of body, under 
wing-coverts and under-surface of flight-quiUs gre 5 ish-brown ; lower aspect of tail 
silvery-grey inchning to white on the outermost pair of feathers which are largely 
notched with wahiut-brown on the inner-webs and black on the spatule at the tips. 
Eyes, hazel ; bill and feet black ; bare space round the eye bluish. Total length 
1,070 mm. ; cuhnen 35, wing 287, tail 670, tarsus 114. Figured. Collected at Selby, 
Victoria, on the 2nd of August, 1914. 
Adult female. Crown of head, sides of face and hind-neck blackish-brown, more or less 
tinged with grey on the last ; upper w^ing-co verts and back paler and inclining 
to walnut-brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and outer aspect of the flight- 
quills pale brown with an ochreous tinge ; inner-webs of the last black, outer-w'ebs 
of inner greater upper wing-coverts and innermost secondaries rich walnut-brown ; 
mmp and upper tail-coverts dusky-brown, the feathers long and fluffy with veiy thin 
and weak shafts, the long upper tail-coverts rust-brown ; outer-webs of tail-feathers 
bronze-browm, the inner-webs darker and inchning to blackish, the webs of the 
central pair much narrower than those of the lateral ones ; chin and throat dark 
chestnut ; remainder of the under-surface dark ash-grey including the under wing- 
coverts, much paler on the vent and darker on the thighs ; under-surface of flight- 
quills pale brown ; lower aspect of tail silvery-grey with rust-colour on the inner- 
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