Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 427. 
Family A TRI CHORNITEIDM. 
RAHCINTA CLAMOSA. 
NOISY SCRUB BIRD. 
(Plate 373.) 
Atrichia clamosa Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xrv., March 1st, 1844 : between Perth and 
Augusta, West Australia. 
Atrichia clamosa Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xiv. (Vol. III., pi. 34), March 1st, 1844; id., 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1844, p. 2 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 344, 
1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 185, 1878; id., Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 659, 1890 ; 
Le Souef, Ibis, 1900, p. 462; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 504 ; id., ib., Vol. II., p. 1080, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 52, 1906. 
Atrichornis clamosa Sharpe, Handl. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 187, 1901 ; Mathews, 
Hand! Birds Austral., p. 60, 1908 ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 299, 1912 ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 162, 1913. 
Atrichornis clamosus campbelli Mathews, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 83, 
May 25th, 1906 : Kang George’s Sound, West Australia. 
Rahcinta clamosa Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 58, April 7th, 1916. 
Distribution. South-west Australia only. Apparently extinct. 
Adult. General colour above, olive-brown barred or mottled with black ; including the 
head, back, wings and tail ; the feathers being rounded, imparts a scalloped appear- 
ance ; outer aspect of quills rufous, the remaining portion uniform brown ; inner- 
webs of outer tail-feathers uniform brown ; the feathers above the eye, ear-coverts 
and cheeks similar, but rather paler than the crown ; chin, throat and breast dull 
white ; a dark brown patch on the middle of the throat and fore-neck with narrow 
white fringes to the feathers ; abdomen and under tail-coverts ferruginous, barred 
with dark brown on the thighs and long under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts 
and quill-lining pale brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface. 
Total length 235 mm. ; culmen 17, wing 83, tail 109, tarsus 26. Figured. 
Collected at King George’s Sound, South-west Australia, and is the type of A. c. 
campbelli Mathews. Wing of typical birds 76 mm. Tail 102. 
Nest and Eggs. Authentic nest and eggs not known. 
Gilbert procured examples of this species between Perth and Augusta, 
having heard “ its peculiar and noisy note ” and since then it has apparently 
* The Plate is lettered Atrichornis clamosus. 
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