Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 444. 
Family MUSCICAPIDM. 
WILSONAVIS RICHMONDI. 
BROWN FLYEATER. 
(Plate 382.)* 
Wilsonayis FUSCA richmondi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 129, Jan. 
29th, 1915 : Richmond River, New South Wales. 
Gerygone fusca Gould, Birds Austr., pt, xxv. (Vol. II., pi. 98), Dec. 1st, 1846 (plate and 
part text but not description) [Not Psilopus juscus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., 
pt. iv., April 1838] ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 267, 1865 (Part.) ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 6, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 195, 1903. 
Acanthiza fusca Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 189, 1848. 
Pseudogerygone fusca Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 223, 1879 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 159, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 15, 
1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 63, 1908. 
Gerygone fusca fusca Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 309, 1912. 
Wilsonavis fusca fusca Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 172, 1913. 
Wilsonavis fusca richmondi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 129, Jan. 28th, 
1915 : Richmond River, New South Wales. 
Distribution. New South Wales. 
Adult female. Crown of head, wings, and tail ochreous-brown ; inner webs of flight-quills 
dark brown narrowly fringed with white ; lateral tail-feathers with a dark sub- 
terminal band and a spot of white on the inner webs at the tips ; lores greyish- 
white ; sides of face, throat, and sides of breast ash-grey, rather paler on the last ; 
middle of breast and abdomen inclining to white ; flanks and under tail-coverts 
pale buff ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white like the inner edges of the 
quills below, the remainder of the quill-lining dark brown ; lower aspect of tail 
also dark brown with more or less white at the tip. Eyes dusky ; feet and bill 
black. Total length 96 mm. ; culmen 8, wing 48, tail 41, tarsus 17. Figured. 
Collected on the Richmond River, northern New South Wales, in October 1910. 
Adult male. Similar to the adult female. 
Immature. Practically the same as adult. 
Nest. About 10 to 12 inches long by three wide, with hooded entrance near the top. 
Composed of green moss and held together with spider’s web. Lined with soft silky 
material. 
* The Plate is lettered Wilsonavis faisca. 
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