SCARLET-BREASTED ROBIN. 
Petroica leggii (subsp. halmaturina) A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. V., p. 140, Jan. 1st, 1906 : 
Kangaroo Island. 
Petroica multicolor leggii Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. NVIII., p. 303, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Petroica multicolor frontalis Mathews, ib. , Jan. 31st, 1912 : Parwan, Victoria ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 167, 1913 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 223, 1914. 
Petroica multicolor campbelli Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 303, Jan. 31st, 1912 ; 
id., List Birds Austr. p. 167, 1913. 
Petroica multicolor samueli Mathews, Austral Av. Kec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 89, Sept. 18th, 
1912 : Kangaroo Island. 
Petroica multicolor halmaturina Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 167, 1913. 
Distribution. Extra-tropical Australia and Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour above black, varied with white on the fore-head, wings and tail ; 
median upper wing-coverts white ; flight-quills dark brown, the four outer ones 
almost uniform, the remainder marked with white — the white increasing in 
extent towards the innermost secondaries where the dark portion is restricted 
to the shaft and apical part of the feathers ; tail blackish, the outer pair of feathers 
obliquely marked with white, the next pair fringed with white on the outer web 
and along the shaft of the inner web on the apical portion ; eye circle whitish ; a 
white fan-shaped spot on the fore-part of the head ; the face and throat black like 
the crown of the head ; breast and upper-abdomen bright scarlet ; lower-abdomen, 
flanks, under tail-coverts, axillaries, under wing-coverts and inner edges of quills 
below white ; under-surface of flight-quills dark brown ; lower aspect of tail 
blackish, the two outer feathers more or less marked with white. Eyes hazel ; 
feet and bill black. Total length 125 mm. ; culmen 10, wing 74, tail 50, tarsus 
18. Figured. Collected at Parwan, Victoria, on the 25th of April, 1906. 
Adult female. General colour above including the head, back, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, 
and upper wing-coverts mouse-brown, the bases of the feathers grey and more or 
less white on the rump ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts brown ; flight-quills 
dark brown with a band of isabelhne-buff on the basal portion of the secondaries 
and on the outer webs of the two innermost towards the tips, the remainder of the 
quills with more or less white on the outer webs, inner-webs also more or less edged 
with white ; tail blackish-brown, the outermost feathers on each side almost entirely 
white, the next one edged with white on the outer web and white along the side 
of the shaft on the inner web ; base of fore-head white ; a ring of short feathers 
encircling the eye also white ; sides of the face similar to the crown ; throat 
similar to the sides of the face but paler and inclining to grey ; breast pale scarlet ; 
abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts isabelline inclining 
to white on the middle of the abdomen ; sides of the body deeper in colour and 
inclining to buff ; under-surface of flight-quills brown ; lower aspect of tail si m ilar 
but rather darker and the outer feathers for the most part white. Eyes hazel ; bill 
and feet brown. Figured. Collected at Olinda, Victoria, on the 14th of April, 1911. 
Immature. General colour of the upper-surface dark brown with pale shaft-lines to the 
feathers including the top of the head, sides of the face, hind-neck, entire back, 
upper tail-coverts, and lesser upper wing-coverts ; median and greater upper 
wing-coverts also dark brown fringed with buff ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 
and flight-quills blackish-brown with a patch of isabelline-buff at the base of the 
secondaries, some of the outer webs partially edged with the same colour, the 
inner white at the base and along the inner webs ; tail blackish, the outermost 
feather almost entirely white, the next one marked with white at the tip ; throat 
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