Order PASSERIFORMES. Family CINCL0S0MAT1D M. 
No. 502. 
CINCLOSOMA PUNCTATUM. 
SPOTTED GROUND-BIRD. 
(Plate 423.) 
Turdus punctatus Shaw, Zool. New Holland, pt. 3, pi. 9, 1795 : New South Wales. 
Turdus punctatus Shaw, Zool. New Holland, pi. 9, 1794 : New South Wales ; Latham, 
Suppl. Index Ornith., p. xliv., (after May 30) 1801 : New South Wales. 
Punctated Thrush Latham, Gen. Synops. Suppl., Vol. II., p. 187, 1801. 
Cinclosoma punctatum Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Loud.), Vol. XV., p. 220, 
1827 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. 1 (Vol. IV., pi. 4), Dec. 1st, 1840 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 433, 1865 ; Sharpe, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 332, 
1883 ; Bamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 187, 1878 ; Legge, Papers 
Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 240, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 11, 
1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 27, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 254, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 323, 
1904 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 69, 1908 ; Fletcher, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 82, 
1909 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 42, 1910. 
Cinclosoma punctatum punctatum Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 330, 1912 ; id.. 
List Birds Austr., p. 197, 1913. 
Cinclosoma punctatum neglectum Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 330, Jan. 31st, 
1912: Frankston, Victoria; id., Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 58, 1912; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 197, 1913 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 249, 1914 ; Purnell, Emu, 
Vol. XV., p. 41, 1915. \\ 
Cinclosoma punctatum dovei Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 330, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Tasmania; id., List Birds Austr., p. 197, 1913. 
Distribution. New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Australia ; Tasmania. 
Adult male. Fore- part of head slate-grey ; crown, nape and hind-neck rust-brown more or 
less tinged with slate-grey ; entire back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and scapulars rust- 
brown with black central streaks to the feathers and tinged with slate-grey, especially 
on the upper tail-coverts and margined with chestnut on some of the i nn er greater 
upper wing-coverts and innermost secondaries ; upper wing-coverts, bastard-wing, 
and primary-coverts black, glossed with steel-blue, and tipped with white ; flight- 
quills dark brown fringed with grey or white on the outer webs ; middle tail- 
feathers pale brown, the lateral feathers black with greyish-brown on the inner webs 
and broadly tipped with white ; a supraloral streak of white which extends over 
the eye and along the sides of the crown ; ear-coverts similar to the crown ; lores, 
sides of face, throat, and upper fore-neck glossy steel-black, which encloses a patch 
of white on the hinder cheeks ; sides of neck and lower fore-neck slate-grey ; an 
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