THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
whitish like the inner edges of the quills below ; remainder of the quills below 
hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail dark brown with white shafts and white margins 
to the feathers. Bill dark lead-grey ; eyes deep brown ; feet lead-grey. Total 
length, 148 mm. ; culmen 7, wing 72, tail 83, tarsus 17. Figured. Collected at 
Wilson’s Inlet, South-west Australia, on the 20th of March, 1911. 
Adult male. From the same locality, similar to the above. 
Adult male. Crown of head, dark ash-grey with dark brown central shaft-streaks to the 
feathers ; back, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts, uniform dark ash-grey, except 
the last, which have the median and greater series tipped with white ; bastard- 
wing and primary -coverts darker than the back slightly edged with white at the 
tips ; outer aspect of flight-quills similar ; the innermost secondaries fringed 
with greyish-white on the outer webs and at the tips ; tail-feathers blackish-brown 
becoming paler on the outer feathers which have white shafts and are tipped 
with the same colour — more extensively on the outermost where it occupies the 
whole of the outer web ; sides of the face similar to the top of the head ; a white 
supraloral streak, which is continued over the eye and along the sides of the crown ; 
chin and throat white ; breast and abdomen pale cinnamon-buff ; under tail- 
coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries cream-white ; under-surface 
of quills dark brown, paler on the inner edges ; lower aspect of tail dark brown, 
white on the apical portion and along the outer web of the outermost pair of 
feathers. Bill black, with base of lower mandible white ; eyes brown, feet black. 
Total length 146 mm. ; culmen 8, wing 67, tail 77, tarsus 17. Figured. Collected 
at Point Torment, King’s Sound, North-west Australia, on the 4th of April, 1911. 
Adult female. From the same locality, similar to the above. 
Adult female. Crown of head, nape, back, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, and upper wing- 
coverts greyish mouse-brown, median and greater series tipped with white ; 
primary-coverts, primary and secondary quills blackish-brown with white margins 
to the outer webs of the inner secondaries ; middle tail-feathers uniform blackish, 
the outer feathers greyish-brown with white shafts and broadly fringed with the 
same colour on the inner webs and tips — extending along the outer web of the 
outermost pair of feathers ; base of fore-head, lores, sides of face and a band across 
the fore-neck blackish ; a spot of white above and in front of the eye ; ear-coverts 
fringed with white ; chin and throat whitish ; rictal bristles black ; breast, 
abdomen, flanks, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts buff paler and in- 
clining to cream colour on the under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts ; under- 
surface of quills greyish-brown becoming paler on the inner edges ; lower aspect 
of tail dark brown with more or less white on the lateral feathers. Bill and legs 
black; eyes brown. Total length 153 mm. ; culmen 6, wing 75, tail 84, tarsus 
17. Figured. Collected on the Leichhardt Biver, Queensland, on the 14th of 
June, 1910. 
Adult male. From the same locality, similar to the above. 
Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, and fore-neck black ; a semicircular supra- 
loral line of white extending to above the eye ; ear-coverts for the most part white ; 
back, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts soot-black, the median and greater series 
minutely tipped with white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills 
blackish-brown ; tail black on the two middle feathers, becoming paler on the 
outer ones, which have white shafts with more or less white at the tips and 
extends along the outer web of the outermost feathers ; rictal bristles black, 
directed forwards, and well developed ; some of the feathers on the fore-head 
fringed with white ; abdomen pale buff ; sides of body blackish ; lower flanks, 
under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts white ; under-surface of 
quills smoke-brown ; lower aspect of tail blackish, some of the outer feathers 
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