Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 445. 
Family MUSCICAPIDM. 
ETHELORNIS MAGNIROSTRIS. 
LARGE-BILLED FLYEATER. 
(Plate 383.) 
Gerygone MAGNIROSTRIS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 133, Feb. 1843 : Greenhill 
Island, Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Gerygone magnirostris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 133, 1843 ; id., Birds 
Austr., pt. xxxii. (Vol. II., pi. 100), Sept. 1st, 1848 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 270, 1865 ; 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. 199, 1903 ; Campbell, Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 181, 1919 (N.T.) 
Acanthiza magnirostris Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 189, 1848. 
Pseudogerygone magnirostris Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 222, 1879 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 158, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 15, 
1906 ; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 222, 1917 (N.T.). 
Gerygone magnirostris magnirostris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 309, Jan. 31st, 
1912. 
Gerygone magnirostris melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 39, April 
2nd, 1912 : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Ethelornis magnirostris magnirostris Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 174, 1913. 
Ethelornis magnirostris melvillensis Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Northern Territory, Melville Island. 
Adult male. General colour above including the crown of the head, sides of face, back, 
wings and tail olive becoming rust colour on the upper tail-coverts ; inner webs 
of flight-quills hair-brown with buffy -white margins ; a blackish subterminal band 
on the tail and whitish on the margin of the inner webs near the tips ; eye-ring 
whitish ; lores dark brown ; base of feathers on the posterior part of the nostrils 
whitish ; throat, abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts 
white ; breast, sides of breast and flanks cream-buff ; under-surface of flight- 
quills hair-brown with paler edges ; lower aspect of tail pale hair-brown. Eyes 
light red ; feet and tarsus leaden blue ; bill black. Total length 120 mm. ; culmen 
12, wing 59, tail 45, tarsus 19. Figured. Collected on Melville Island, Northern 
Territory, on the 4th of June, 1912. 
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