CINNAMON GROUND-BIRD. 
Cinclosoma castaneothorax castaneothorax Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 331, 1912 ; 
id., List Birds Austr. , p. 198, 1913. 
Cinclosoma castaneothorax marginatum Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 331, 1912 ; id.. 
List Birds Austr., p. 198, 1913. 
Cinclosoma castaneothorax nea Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 331, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Day Dawn, West Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 198, 1913. 
Samuela cinnamomea Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 198, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. 
XIV., p. 188, 1915 (C.A.). 
Samuela cinnamomea samueli Mathews, Austral Av. Rec . , Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 60, April 
7th, 1916 : Gawler Ranges, South Australia. 
Distribution. The interior of Australia, north-east to the Darling Downs, Queensland, 
to the north-west, to the south-west to Day Dawn, West Australia, and to the south to 
Gawler Ranges, South Australia. 
Adult male. Crown of head and nape, dark earth-brown with dark shaft-lines to the 
feathers ; ear-coverts similar but no dark shaft-lines ; back, scapulars and margins 
of secondary- quills, rufous-chestnut like the rump and upper tail-coverts ; upper 
wing-coverts, including bastard-whig and primary-coverts black with white tips to 
the feathers ; flight-quills dark brown becoming darker and inclining to black on the 
secondaries, outer margins of primaries more or less white ; tail black tipped with 
white which increases in extent towards the outermost feather on each side and 
absent from the pair next to the central pair, the two middle feathers rufous 
fading into brown on the apical portion ; lores and a line below the eye, which 
extends on to the sides of the neck, black ; a broad line of white from above 
the eye along the sides of the crown, a somewhat similar line but wider, from 
the gape of the bill to the sides of the neck ; chin and throat blue-black with a 
steel gloss ; a band across the fore-neck and sides of the body cinnamon-chestnut ; 
breast black ; abdomen and vent white ; the feathers on the sides of the abdomen 
and lower flanks marked with black and white ; under tail-coverts black tipped 
and margined on one side with white ; axillaries and marginal under wing-coverts 
white, the inner coverts and greater series greyish-brown like the under-surface 
of the quills ; lower aspect of the tail black with white tips to the feathers. Eyes 
dark brown ; bill black, feet lead-grey. Total length 220 mm. ; culmen 13, wing 
91, tail 95, tarsus 29. Figured. Collected at Day Dawn, West Australia, on 
the 11th of July, 1903. \ 
Adidt female. Crown of head, hind-neck, sides of neck, and ear-coverts earth-brown ; a 
white line which commences above and in front of the eye and extends along the 
sides of the crown ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and margins of 
secondary-quills rufous-chestnut ; upper wing-coverts including the bastard-wing 
and primary-coverts black tipped with white, the major coverts more or less rufous- 
brown on the outer margins ; tail, the two central feathers rufous fading to brown 
on the apical portion, the next pair blackish-brown and the remainder black tipped 
with white ; the short feathers surrounding the eye dark brown tipped with white ; 
throat buffy- white ; fore-neck and breast drab-grey tinged with cimiamon-rufous ; 
sides of the body similar to the back ; middle of abdomen whitish ; thighs dusky ; 
under tail-coverts cinnamon-buff with dark brown centres to the feathers ; axillaries 
and under wing-coverts white, the inner coverts and greater series greyish-brown like 
the quill-lining ; lower aspect of tail blackish with cream- wlnte tips to the outer feathers. 
Eyes red-brown ; bill and interior of mouth black, feet and legs very deep lead-grey. 
Total length 217 mm. ; culmen 14, wing 97, tail 101, tarsus 31. Figured. Collected 
at Borewell, East Murchison, West Australia, on the 1st of September, 1909. 
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