Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No, 455. 
Family M U SCI C 1 API DM. 
IREDALEORNIS CINEREIFRONS. 
ASHY-FRONTED FLY-ROBIN. 
(Plate 388.)* 
Pcecilodryas ? CINEREIFRONS Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 588, April 1st, 
1876 : near Cardwell, Queensland. 
Pcecilodryas ? cinereifrons Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 588, 1876 ; id., 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878. 
Heteromyias cinereifrons Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 239, 1879 ; id., Gould’s 
Birds New Guinea, Vol. II., pi. 15 (pt. x.), Sept. 1st, 1879 ; Ramsay, Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 15, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 317, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, 
Vol. I., pt. in., p. 175, 1903 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 64, 1908; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 175, 1913 ; Campbell and Barnard, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 21, 
1917. 
Pachycephala cinereifrons Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 311, 1912. 
Heteromyias cinereifrons athertoni Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 130, Jan. 
28th, 1915 : Atherton, North Queensland. 
Heteromyias cinereifrons cinereifrons Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Cardwell district). 
Adult male. Crown of head, nape, and hind-neck slate-grey becoming ash-grey on the 
sides of the crown like that of the breast ; ear-coverts, sides of neck, sides of breast, 
scapulars, innermost secondaries and back ochreous-brown ; lesser upper wing- 
coverts grey ; bastard-wing, median, greater and primary-coverts blackish, more 
or less edged with grey ; flight-quills blackish margined with grey or white on 
the outer webs at the base and with ochreous on the apical portion, inner webs 
marked with white which increases in extent on the inner ones ; upper tail-coverts, 
middle tail-feathers, and outer webs of the lateral ones rust colour ; inner webs of 
tail-feathers dusky-brown with obsolete cross-bars, and bufly -white tips ; lores 
and chin blackish, the feathers extended into black hair-like tips ; the short feathers 
above and below the eye and throat white, as is also the middle of the abdomen ; 
sides of the body ochreous becoming paler and inclining to cinnamon on the lower 
flanks and under tail-coverts ; thighs grey ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 
greyish-brown fringed with white ; outer margins of wings below white like the 
inner webs of the quills below, remainder of the under-surface of the flight-quills 
dark hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar with a rufous tinge. Eyes light 
* The Plate is lettered Heteromyias cinereifrons. 
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