THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Total length 150 mm. ; culmen 11, wing 87, tail 65, tarsus 25. Figured. Collected 
at Selby (Victoria) on the 2nd of May, 1915, and is Pachycephala australis viridior 
Mathews. 
Adult females. From the same locality are similar. 
Adult male. General colour above ashy-grey, slightly washed with olive-green on the 
back ; the rump and upper-tail coverts dull yellowish-green, a little brighter on the 
tail-coverts ; the feathers on each side of the rump loose and fluffy, with broad 
white ends ; wing-coverts dark slate-colour, the greater series somewhat blacker, 
with slaty-grey edges ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black, forming a wing- 
patch, the outer bastard- wing greyish-brown near the base of the outer web ; quills 
dusky bluish, edged with slaty-grey ; tail-feathers slaty-grey, the centre feathers, 
edged with dull yellowish-green, and all of them fringed with white at the ends, 
these margins more distinctly indicated on the outer feathers ; crown of head and 
sides of face ashy-grey ; lores darker and somewhat blackish, surmounted by a 
whitish streak ; feathers round the eye also whitish ; fore-part of cheeks and chin 
greyish-white ; throat and under-surface of body bright yellow, with a shade of 
green across the fore-neck and breast, the sides of the latter, as well as the sides 
of the body being also greenish ; thighs pale ash-grey, tinged with yellow ; under 
tail-coverts pale yellow, with ashy centres ; under wing-coverts ashy-white, the 
greater series black, forming a bar across the wing ; axillaries also dusky-blackish, 
white externally towards the base of the feathers ; lower primary-coverts white 
with dusky bars, and forming a wing-spot ; quills dusky-brown colour, the central 
feathers edged with white for a great part of the inner web. Collected at Oakleigh, 
Victoria, in November 1905. 
Adult female. Crown of head, hind-neck, sides of neck, and upper back, scapulars, and 
upper wing-coverts dark lead-grey ; inner portion of the median and greater upper 
wing-coverts blackish-brown like the bastard-wing and primary-coverts ; outer 
edges of flight-quills edged with whitish, the remaining portion dark brown with 
more or less white on the inner webs ; lower back green, becoming citron-yellow 
on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; tail-feathers blackish with whitish edgings at 
the tips and fringed with green on the basal portion ; ear-coverts brown with pale 
shaft-lines to the feathers ; lores and ring round the eye blackish ; rictal bristles 
black and directed forward ; chin and throat greyish-white ; lower throat, breast, 
lower flanks and abdomen bright yellow ; sides of breast citron-yellow ; under 
tail-coverts sulphur-yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white with dusky- 
brown tips to some of the latter ; under-surface of flight- quills dark brown with 
white inner margins on the basal portion ; lower aspect of tail dark brown with 
white shafts and pale tips to the feathers. Bill, eyes, legs, and feet blackish-brown. 
Total length 160 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 87, tail 66, tarsus 21. Figured. 
Collected near Cobbora, New South Wales (1,500 feet above sea level) on the 
21st of November, 1913, and is Eopsaltria australis austina. 
Adult males. From the same locality are similar. 
Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, hind-neck, upper back, scapulars, and upper wing- 
coverts dark slate-grey ; inner portions of the median and greater upper wing- 
coverts black like the bastard-wing and primary- coverts ; outer edge of wing white 
flight-quills blackish, narrowly edged with grey on the outer webs and margined 
with white on the inner ones ; lower back, dark green ; rump and upper tail-coverts 
yellow ; tail-feathers blackish edged with white at the tips and fringed with green 
on the basal portion ; rictal bristles black and well developed ; feathers in front of 
the eye black and bristly in texture ; feathers on the fore-part of the head are 
paler than those on the hinder-crown cheeks pale grey ; chin dull white ; throat. 
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