THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
257, 1913 (N.T.) ; Jackson, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 169, 1919 (N.S.W.) ; Harvey, 
ib., Vol. XIX., p. 37, 1919 (N.Q.). 
Sauloprocta melaleuca North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 132, 1903; Hall, 
Emu, Vol. IX., p. 127, 1910 (S.A.). (Not of Quoy et Gaimard 1830.) 
Rhipidura tricolor motacilloides Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 221, 1905; Mathews, 
ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 321, 1912. 
Rhipidura tricolor picata Mathews, ib. 
Rhipidura tricolor utingu Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 90, Sept. 18th, 
1912 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Leucocirca tricolor Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 187, 1913 ; S. A. White, Trans. Roy. 
Soc. S. Austr., Vol. XXXVIII., p. 429, 1914. 
Leucocirca tricolor tricolor Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 187, 1913 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, 
p. 241, 1914. 
Leucocirca tricolor utingu Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 187, 1913. 
Leucocirca tricolor picata Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Australia. Not Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour black, including the top of the head, sides of the face, bind- 
neck, back, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, and tail, upper wing-coverts, and inner- 
most secondaries, throat, fore-neck, sides of breast, axillaries, under wing-coverts, 
thighs, and lower aspect of tail. The back, upper wing-coverts, and tail paler 
than the head and more sooty-black with obsolete cross-bars on the upper-surface 
of the last ; primary-coverts, primary-quills, and outer secondaries hair-brown ; 
a supraloral streak of white which extends over the eye on to the sides of the 
crown ; lores and rictal bristles black ; a dotted line of white along to fore-part 
of the cheeks ; middle of breast, abdomen, sides of body and under tail-coverts 
white ; under wing-coverts more or less speckled with white ; under-surface of 
flight-quills hair-brown. Bill and feet black ; eyes brown. Total length 189 
mm. ; culmen 12, wing 95, tail 95, tarsus 25. Figured. Collected Parry’s 
Creek, North-west Australia, on the 26th of December, 1908. 
Adult female. From the same locality, similar to the above. 
Adult female. Crown of head, back, scapulars, upper wing-coverts, innermost second- 
aries, upper tail-coverts and tail glossy black with obsolete cross-bars on the 
last ; bastard- wing and outer greater coverts dark smoke-brown ; primary- 
coverts, primary- quills and secondaries dark hair-brown ; a supraloral streak of 
white which widens out above the eye and on the sides of the crown ; lores and 
rictal bristles black ; some of the feathers on the cheeks and chin have indications 
of white tips ; throat, sides of breast, axillaries, under wing-coverts, thighs, and 
under-surface of tail black ; the marginal under wing-coverts tipped with white ; 
fore-neck, breast, sides of body, abdomen and under tail-coverts white. Bill, 
eyes and feet black. Culmen 12 mm., wing 85, tail 89, tarsus 22. Figured. 
Collected at Cape York, North Queensland, on the 29th of September, 1912. 
Adult male. From the same locality, similar to the above. 
Immature male. Crown of head, sides of face, sides of neck, hind-neck, back, and upper 
tail-coverts bluish-black with rufous edgings to the feathers on the lower back and 
white, or smoky- white tips to the feathers on the nape ; a white line above and 
in front of the eye which is continued along the sides of the crown ; upper wing- 
coverts dark brown with rust colour tips to the feathers like the tips of the inner- 
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