Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 465. 
Family M TJ SCIC API DjE. 
GILBERT ORNIS RUFOGULARIS. 
KED-LORED THICKHEAD. 
(Plate 395.) 
Pachycephala rufogularis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 164, July, 1841 : 
South Australia (within two miles of Adelaide). 
Pachycephala rufogularis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 164, 1841 ; id. Birds 
Austr., pt. 18 (Vol. II., pi. 70) March 1st, 1845 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
p. 215, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 181, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 209, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. Birds, p. 5, 
1888 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 212, 1912 (S.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. XII., p. 180, 
1913 (S.A.) ; Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 42, 1913 (Vic.) ; Ashby, ib., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 311, 1917. 
Gilbertornis rufogularis rufogularis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 59, April 
7th, 1916. 
Gilbertornis rufogularis zanda Mathews, ib. : Bolton’s Crab-hole, Mallee, Victoria. 
Distribution. Adjoining parts of Victorian and South Australian Mallee. 
Adult male. General colour above slate-grey, slightly tinged with olive on the scapulars and 
upper back ; bastard-wing, median and greater upper wing-coverts, primary-coverts 
and flight-quills dark brown with grey, or yellowish outer margins ; tail pale brown 
tinged with grey ; base of fore-head, lores and feathers in front of the eye pale rufous 
like the chin, throat and fore-neck ; upper-breast, sides of body and thighs ash-grey ; 
middle of lower-breast, abdomen, lower flanks and under tail-coverts cinnamon- 
rufous like the axillaries and under wing-coverts ; under-surface of quills pale brown ; 
lower aspect of tail similar but rather paler. Bill black ; eyes crimson ; feet dark 
slate. Total length 217 mm. ; culmen 13, wing 113, tail 90, tarsus 27. Figured. 
Collected at Bolton’s Crab-hole, Mallee, Victoria, on the 14th of September, 1913. 
Adult female. Very similar to the female of inornata, but lighter, especially on the under- 
surface and head. Lores whitish. 
I mmature. Similar to the adult on the back, but having the under-surface, with a dark 
streak down the centre of the whitish feathers ; lores and the feathers over the 
nostrils whitish. 
Nest. Cup-shaped. Composed of strips of bark and grasses held together with cobweb. 
Lined with soft material. Outside measurements 4j by 24 inches deep. Inside 
2J by li deep. 
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