THE BIRDS OE AUSTRALIA. 
and under tail-coverts smoky-white ; lower flanks lemon-yellow ; thighs grey ; 
axillaries. pale grey ; under wing-coverts dark grey, marginal coverts and greater 
series white ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with white inner edges ; lower 
aspect of tail dusky-brown with white inner margins which become broader’ at the 
tips of the outer feathers. Collected at Wilson’s Inlet on the 8th of January, 1910. 
Immature female. Crown of head, sides of face, hind-neck, scapulars and back smoke- 
brown with white shaft-lines and lead-grey bases to the feathers becoming rust 
colour on the upper tail-coverts and intermixed with lead-grey on the upper back ; 
upper wing-coverts grey, some of the median series white fringed with brown and 
some of the greater coverts indented with buffy-white at the tips ; bastard-wing 
and primary-coverts blackish-brown ; flight-quills dark brown fringed on the outer 
webs with grey and on the inner ones with white, the innermost secondaries indented 
with white at the tips ; tail-feathers blackish-brown fringed with green on the 
outer webs and white on the inner ones, more broadly at the tips of the lateral 
feathers ; lores blackish ; rictal bristles black, but only sparsely developed ; chin, 
throat, abdomen, lower flanks, and under tail-coverts smoke-white ; breast and 
sides of body dark smoke-brown, the feathers centred with white shaft-lines ; under 
wing-coverts lead-grey ; those round the outer edge of the wing white like the base 
of the greater series ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with whitish inner 
edges ; lower aspect of tail greyish-brown with pale tips to the feathers. Collected 
at Wilson’s Inlet, West Australia, on the 12th of December, 1909. 
Nest. Similar to that of Eopsaltria australis. 
Eggs. Clutch, two to three. Very similar to those of Eopsaltria australis but with a 
yellowish tinge. They are about the same size. 
Breeding-season. August to October. 
Of Eojpsaltria griseogularis Gould wrote : “Is abundant in every part of the 
colony of Swan River, inhabiting thickets and all spots clothed with vegetation 
of a brushlike character. ‘ In its actions,’ says Gilbert, 4 this bird is very 
like the Robins, being much on the ground, and when feeding constantly flying 
up and perching on a small upright twig. It does not appear to be capable of 
great or continued exertion on the wing, as it is rarely seen to do more than flit 
from bush to bush. Its most common note much resembles the very lengthened 
and plaintive song of the Estrelda bella, but differs from it in being a double note 
often repeated ; it also utters a great variety of single notes, and during the 
breeding-season pours forth a short but agreeable song. Its stomach is 
muscular, and its food consists of insects of various kinds.’ The sexes are 
precisely similar in outward appearance. It is stationary in Western 
Australia, but the extent of its range over the continent is not yet known.” 
Mr. Edwin Ashby has written me : “ I found this bird common a few 
miles west of Albany, in West Australia. The country was damp, with tall 
forest and scattered lagoons, bordered with ti-tree ( Melaleuca ) scrub. 
Mr. Mellor has shown me skins of birds he shot not very far from Port 
Lincoln, in South Australia.” 
Campbell had previously recorded the occurrence of this species in South 
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