Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 449. 
Family MUSCICAPID/E. 
ETHELORNIS LEVIGASTER. 
BUFF- BREASTED FLYEATEE. 
(Plate 385.)* 
Gerygone leyigaster Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 133, Feb. 1843 : near 
Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Gerygone levigaster Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 133, 1843. 
Gerygone Icevigaster Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxxiv. (Vol. II., pi. 101), Dec. 1st, 1848; 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Yol. I., p. 270, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 183, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 6, 1888 ; Campbell, Emu, 
Vol. XVIII., p. 182, 1919. 
AcantJiiza Icevigaster Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 189, 1848. 
Pseudogerygone Icevigastra f Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 223, 1879; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. L, p. 160, 1901 ; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. II., p. 144, 
1903 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 14, 1906 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 64, 
1908 ; Hill, Emu, Vol. X., p. 274, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. XII., p. 257, 1913 
(N.T.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XV., p. 62, 1915 ; id., ib., Vol. XVI., p. 222, 1917 (N.T.) 
Gerygone Icevigaster Icevigaster Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 310, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Gerygone Icevigaster broomei Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 89, Sept. 18th, 
1912 : Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia. 
Wilsonavis Icevigaster Icevigaster Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 173, 1913. 
Wilsonavis Icevigaster broomei Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Northern Territory. North-west Australia. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-parts ochreous-brown including the top of the 
head, back, wings and middle tail-feathers, the last darker towards the tips ; inner 
webs of flight-quills hair-brown narrowly edged with white ; the lateral tail- 
feathers blackish, subterminally marked with a blotch of white on the inner web 
at the tips and on both webs of the outermost feather on each side ; sides of face 
paler than the back ; a small dark spot in front of the eye ; the feathers at the 
base of the fore-head, lores and a narrow line over the eye white like the throat 
and entire under-surface, including the under-tail coverts, axillaries, and under 
wing-coverts ; under-surface of quills pale brown with white inner edges ; lower 
aspect of tail blackish-brown marked with white at the tip. Eyes reddish-brown ; 
bill and feet black. Total length 100 mm. ; culmen 8, wing 55, tail 40, tarsus 18. 
* The Plate is lettered Wilsonavis Icevigaster. 
f Also spelt Icevigaster. 
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