Order PASSERIFORMES. Family MUSCICAPIDM 
No. 482. 
MACHCERIRHYNCHUS FLA VI VENTER. 
YELLOW-BREASTED WHERE YBILL. 
(Plate 407.) 
Machcerirhynchus flaviventer Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. II, pt. i., March loth, 
1851 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Machcerirhynchus flaviventer Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. 11, pt. i., 1851 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 257, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1868, p. 384 ; 
Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 51, 1876 ; Ramsay, ib., Vol. H., p. 182, 
1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 390, 1879 ; Ramsay, Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 6, 1888 ; Le Souef, Ibis, 1897, p. 398 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 
18, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 123, 1901 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 147, 1903; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 66, 1908 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 26, 1911 (N.Q.) ; Campbell and 
Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 24, 1917 (N.Q.) ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 198, 1918 (N.Q.). 
Machcerirhynchus flaviventer flaviventer Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 322, 1912 ; 
id., List Birds Austr., p. 189, 1913. 
Machcerirhynchus flaviventer secundus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 322, Jan. 
31st, 1912 : Bartle Frere, North Queensland ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 189, 
1913. 
Distribution. North Queensland, from Cape York to Cardwell. 
Adult male. General colour above black, varied with white and yellow ; base of fore-head 
and supraloral streak yellow, the latter extending over the eye on to the sides of 
the hinder crown and almost meets on the nape ; the feathers on the rump tinged 
with yellow ; median and greater upper wing- coverts broadly tipped with white ; 
outer edge of wing white ; outer edges of quills and innermost secondaries white or 
yellowish-white ; tail black tipped with white narrowly on the middle feathers 
but much broader on the lateral ones and extending along the outer webs of the 
two outermost feathers ; rictal bristles black ; chin and throat white ; fore-neck, 
sides of neck, breast, sides of body, and under tail-coverts bright yellow ; axillaries, 
under wing-coverts and inner margins of quills below white, outer edge of wing 
below black ; under-surface of flight-quills dark brown ; lower aspect of tail black 
with white tips to the outer feathers. Bill and feet black ; eyes brown. Total 
length 130 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 60, tail 52, tarsus 16. Figured. Collected at 
Kuranda, North Queensland, on the 24th of April, 1913. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface dark green varied with yellow, black, 
and white ; crown of head somewhat darker than the back with minute dark 
central spots to the feathers ; fore-head, supraloral streak, which is continued in a 
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