THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
breast and sides of breast ochreous-grey ; abdomen and sides of body very pale 
sulphur-yellow ; under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts white ; 
under-surface of flight-quills pale brown with paler inner edges ; lower aspect of 
tail pale olive-brown with white shafts to the feathers. Bill brown (black in skin), 
eyes black ; feet grey. Total length 136 mm. ; culmen 11, wing 80, tail 59, tarsus 
20. Figured. Collected at Piara, Cape York, North Queensland, on the 18th of 
August, 1913. 
Adult female. Similar to the above. 
Immature. “ Rufous-coloured, like those of Pachyceyhala gutturalisN (Campbell and 
Barnard.)? 
Nest. “ Cup-shaped, somewhat loosely made of wood, dead leaves interwoven with root- 
lets and tendrils, and sparsely lined with dead grass, tendrils, etc. On the outside 
a little web and droppings of insects. Placed in the upright fork of a small sapling. 
Dimensions, over all, 3| inches by 3 inches deep ; inside 2\ inches by U inches 
deep.” (White.) 
Eggs. “ Clutch, two .... White, well marked all over, particularly at the larger end, 
with spots of dark and light umber and purplish-grey, the latter having the appear- 
ance of being beneath the shell.” (id.) 21 mm. by 16. 
Breeding-season. October. 
As long ago as 1875 Ramsay described a bird as Eopsaltria ? inornata, and 
for thirty years it remained unrecognised. When I drew up my “ Reference 
List 55 I lumped Eopsaltria with Pachycephala, and therefore renamed the species, 
as the specific name had been previously proposed by Gould. I admitted as a 
different form the Cape York bird which Hartert had described as Pachycephala 
peninsulce. When I criticised the latter species, which I regarded as a sub- 
species of an Aru Island bird named by Gray Pachycephala griseiceps, I found 
so many differences that I introduced a new genus for it, which I dedicated 
to Mr. A. H. Mattingley, Mattingleya. 
The next year I published a note under the title “ Mattingleya inornata 
(Ramsay),” writing : “ Dr. William Macgillivray, of Broken Hill, sent me 
over some birds collected at Cape York. Amongst them he included a £ Robin ’ 
that he could not name. It turned out to be ‘ Pachycephala peninsulas, ’ Hartert. 
I wrote to Dr. Macgillivray to this effect, and he replied that he had since sent 
examples to Mr. North, who said it was 4 Eopsaltria inornata 5 Ramsay. Dr. 
Macgillivray says it certainly is not a Pachycephala in its habits ; it as surely 
is not an Eopsaltria .” 
Macgillivray himself wrote : “ Mattingleya inornata. Plain-coloured Shrike 
Robin. Under this heading we must now put a bird which was originally 
described as an Eopsaltria by Dr. Ramsay in the Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society of London , 1874, p. 604. The type is in the Australian Museum, 
the habitat being given as the scrubs to the north of the Endeavour River, 
but the locality on the label of the type is Cardwell. The former locality is 
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