Order PASSERIFORMES. Family ORTH ON Y C1DJE. 
No. 500. 
ORTHONYX TEMMINCKII. 
SPINE- TAILED LOG-RUNNER. 
(Plate 421.)* 
Orthonyx temminckh Ranzani, Elem. di Zool., Vol. III., pt. iil, p. 19, April 3rd, 1822 : 
“ Oceanica ” = Hat Hill, New South Wales. 
Orthonyx temminchii Ranzani, Elem. di Zool., Vol. III., pt. m., p. 19, 1822 ; Vigors and 
Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 294, Feb. 17th, 1827 : Hat Hill, 
near Noura, New South Wales. 
Orthonyx maculatus Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., p. 186, 1826 : Hat Hill, New 
South Wales ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 196, 1913. 
Orthonyx spinicaudus Temminckand Laugier, Plan. Color. d’Ois., 72 e livr. (Vol. IV., pis. 428, 
429), April 25th, 1827 : Hat Hill, New South Wales ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxx. 
(Vol. IV., pi. 99), March 1st, 1848 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 607, 1865 ; 
Higgles, Ornith. Austr., pt. vni., 1866 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., 
p. 329, 1883 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 191, 1878 ; id.. Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 27, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 252, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., 
No. 1, Vol. I., p. 317, 1904; Mathews, Hand!. Birds Austral., p. 69, 1908; S. A. 
White, Emu, Vol. XIX., p. 218, 1920 (Q.). 
Orthonyx temminchii temminchii Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 329, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Orthonyx temminchii chandleri Mathews, ib. : Richmond River, New South Wales ; id., 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 58, 1912. 
Orthonyx maculatus maculatus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 196, 1913. 
Orthonyx maculatus chandleri, Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. New South Wales ; South Queensland. 
Adult male. Crown of head smoke-brown ; upper back also smoke-brown, the feathers 
coarsely and irregularly marked with black ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts dark chestnut ; upper wing-coverts black with slate-grey tips to the feathers ; 
bastard-wing uniform blackish-brown ; flight-quills blackish, becoming paler on the 
apical portion and smoke-brown on the outer webs, some of the primary-quills 
grey at the extreme base ; tail dark smoke-brown inclining to blackish on the 
outer feathers, the shafts glossy black ; base of fore-head, lores, and entire sides 
of the face, including the eye dull slate-grey ; the feathers on the sides of the neck 
subterminally black with grey tips, which indicates a black band ; throat, breast, 
* The Plate is lettered Orthonyx maculatus. 
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