FLYEATER. 
Ethelornis culicivorus musgravi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 130, Jan. 21st, 
1915: Musgrave Range, Central Australia; S. A. White, Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. 
S.A., XXXIX., p. 749, Dec. 1915. 
Distribution. Interior of Australia ; coastal in the west and north to Mungi, North- 
west Australia, north-east to Tambo, Queensland, and south-east to Rutherglen, 
Victoria. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface ochreous-brown including the crown of 
the head, entire back, scapulars, and outer aspect of the wings ; inner webs of 
the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills hair-brown with paler inner 
edges to the last ; middle tail-feathers dark brown, the lateral ones blackish-brown 
with a white band across the basal portion and a white spot on the inner web at 
the tip, extending to the outer web on the outermost feather on each side ; lores 
and hinder-face like the crown ; cheeks, throat, breast, and sides of breast ash- 
grey ; abdomen, lower flanks, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts 
white with an ochreous tinge ; flight-quills below pale brown with narrow whitish 
edgings ; lower aspect of tail blackish-brown marked with white, the same as on 
its upper side. Eyes, reddish-brown ; feet black ; bill black ; with the lower 
base greyish-white. Total length 113 mm. ; culmen 8, wing 59, tarsus 18, tail 
48. Figured. Collected at Mungi, interior of North-west Australia on the 21st 
of June, 1911, and is the type of Gerygone culicivora dendyi. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Immature. Have the under-surface washed with buff. 
Adult male. Crown of head, back, scapulars and upper wing-coverts earth-grey ; bastard- 
wing, primary-co verts, greater upper wing-coverts, and flight-quills hair-brown, 
with somewhat paler edges to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts inclining to buff ; 
middle tail-feathers dark brown, the lateral ones blackish, banded with white 
on the middle and subapically on the outer feathers on each side and a spot of 
white on the inner web at the tips of the remainder ; the feathers at the base of 
the upper mandible whitish ; a dark brown spot in front of the eye ; eye-ring white ; 
sides of the face similar to the crown but rather paler ; throat, breast, abdomen, 
sides of body, under tail-coverts, axillaries, under wing-coverts and inner edges 
of flight-quills below white slightly tinged with pale isabelline ; under-surface of 
flight-quills hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail blackish-brown, marked with white 
on the basal portion and at the tip. Eyes red ; feet and bill black. Total length 
93 mm. ; culmen 7, wing 56, tarsus 17, tail 40. Figured. Collected^ in the 
Musgrave Ranges, Central Australia, on the 27th of July, 1914, and is the type 
of Gerygone culicivora musgravi. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, back, scapulars and upper wing-coverts earth- 
grey ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, greater upper wing-coverts, and flight-quills 
hair-brown with paler edges to the feathers ; middle tail-feathers like the back, 
the outer feathers blackish-brown with a band of white across the middle and 
another at the tip on the outermost feather on each side and a spot on the inner 
web at the tips of the others ; the feathers at the base of the upper mandible 
whitish ; a spot in front of the eye dark brown ; throat and breast ash-grey ; 
abdomen, flanks, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts silky-white 
like the inner edges of the quills ; under-surface of flight-quills pale brown ; lower 
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