Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 441. 
Family MUSCICAPIDM. 
AMAURODRYAS VITTATA. 
DUSKY ROBIN. 
(Plate 380.) 
Mtjscicapa yittata Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de “l’Astrol.,” Zool., Vol. I., p. 173 (pref. 
June 29th) 1830 : King George’s Sound, West Australia, errore = Tasmania. 
Muscicapa vittata Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de “l’Astrol.,” Zool., Vol. I., p. 173, 1830. 
Petroica fusca Gould, Birds Austr., pt. vin. (Vol. III., pi. 8), Sept. 1st, 1842 : Tasmania ; 
Diggles, Ornith. Austr., pt. vm., 1866. 
Amaurodryas vittata Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 286, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 147, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 173, 1903 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 170, 1913. 
Petroica vittata Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, B.M., Vol. I., p. 229, 1869 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 177, 1879 ; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 239, 
1887 (Tas.) ; id., ib., 1887, p. 88, 1888 (Tas.) ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., 
p. 206, 1903 (King Island) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 14, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 62, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 25, 1910 ; Dove, Emu, 
Vol. X., p. 127, 1910 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 306, 1912. 
Amaurodryas vittata kingi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 5, p. 92, Sept. 24th, 
1914 : King Island, Bass Straits. 
Amaurodryas vittata bassi Mathews, ib. : Barren Island, Flinders Group, Bass Straits 
Distribution. Tasmania and islands of Bass Straits. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface chocolate-brown, including the top of the 
head, back, wings and tail ; outer edge of wing white which includes the outer 
edge of the first primary, inner webs of flight quills-blackish, a smoke- white bar 
across the quills on the basal portion, commencing on the seventh primary, which 
is white and much more extended on the inner web ; greater-coverts, primary- 
coverts, and outer aspect of quills somewhat darker than the back ; tail slightly 
paler than the back, the lateral feathers fringed with white at the tips and along 
the outer web of the outermost ; an indistinct line over the eye, which is continued 
along the sides of the crown to the sides of the nape, and sides of the face paler 
than the crown with an indication to pale shaft-streaks on the latter ; throat pale 
isabelline ; fore-neck, breast, sides of body, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pale 
umber brown ; thighs grey ; axillaries and marginal under wing-coverts whitish, 
inner and greater series dusky-brown with whitish tips to the last ; under-surface 
of flight-quills hair-brown with an oblique line of white ; lower aspect of tail 
YOL. vin. 
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