Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 439. 
Family M U S GIC A PI D/E. 
BELCHERA ROSEA. 
ROSE-BREASTED ROBIN. 
(Plate 377.) 
Petroica rosea Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 142, March 1840 : Hunter 
River, New South Wales. 
Petroica rosea Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.), 1839, p. 142, March 1840 ; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 170, 1879 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 139, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 13, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 62, 1908; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 304, 1912. 
Muscicapa lathami var. Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 245, 
1827. 
Erythrodryas rosea Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 112, 1843 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. viir. (Vol. III., pi. 2), Sept. 1st, 1842 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 277, 
1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878; id., Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 159, 1903. 
Belchera rosea Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 168, 1913. 
Belchera rosea queenslandica Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 59, April 
7th, 1916 : North Queensland. 
Distribution. New South Wales ; Queensland ; Victoria. 
Adult male. Head, back, wings and tail, sides of face, and throat dark lead-grey ; bastard- 
wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills hair-brown ; the last marked with white 
on the inner webs towards the base ; tail similar, the outer feathers marked with 
white on the inner webs, more extensively on the outermost ; a spot of white at 
the base of the fore-head ; fore-neck and breast rose colour ; abdomen, under 
tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts white ; thighs lead-grey ; under- 
surface of flight-quills blackish with white at the base ; lower aspect of tail also 
blackish, extensively marked with white on the outer feathers, the white graduating 
less towards the middle ones. Eyes dusky ; bill and feet black. Total length 118 
mm. ; culmen 8, wing 66, tail 58, tarsus 15. Figured. Collected on the Tweed 
River, northern New South Wales, on the 9th of August, 1912. 
Adult female. Head, back, upper wing-coverts, and tail-coverts pale lead-grey ; bastard- 
wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills hair-brown, the last irregularly marked 
with white on both webs ; tail dark brown, the outer feathers obliquely marked 
with white more extensively on the outermost ; base of fore-head and eyelids 
buffy-white ; sides of the face like the top of the head ; throat and under-surface 
pale grey tinged with buff inclining to white on the abdomen, under tail-coverts, 
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