CINNAMON GROUND-BIRD. 
indebted to the researches of that enterprising traveller Captain Sturt, who 
procured a single specimen during his lengthened sojourn at the Depot in 
that sterile and inhospitable region, the interior of South Australia. Since 
that date many other examples have been sent to Europe, which have been 
collected in other parts of the country.” 
Captain S. A. White has written me : “ Tins is an interior bird found 
in the driest portions of Australia and, with few exceptions, upon the stony 
tableland country. It runs with great rapidity over the Gibber plains, and 
the reddish-brown back harmonises most wonderfully with the oxide of iron 
staining of the stones, and when they partly crouch forward as they run only 
the upper part is visible.” 
He had recorded : “A pair of these rare birds was met with on the side 
of a spinifex-covered hill near the shores of Lake Gairdner. One bird ran 
with great rapidity under an acacia bush, and stood perfectly motionless to 
avoid detection, and when flushed alighted under another bush and squatted 
in the dead leaves.” 
Two years after Gould had described his G. cinnamomeus he added 
Cinclosoma castaneothorax , writing : “ Eor a knowledge of this richly-coloured 
and very distinct species of Ground-Thrush, science is indebted to Charles 
Coxen, Esq., of Brisbane, who discovered it in the scrubby belt of trees 
growing on the tableland to the northward of the Darling Downs. In size it 
nearly equals the Cindosoma castaneonotum , but differs from that bird in the 
buffy stripe over the eye, in the colouring of the back, and in the band of 
chestnut-brown which crosses the breast. To my regret, only a single male 
specimen has yet been forwarded to me.” 
Mr. Edwin Ashby has written me : “I have a male that was collected 
at Black Range, Murchison, W.A., 7/10/99, which is so closely similar to t^ie 
Cinnamon Ground-Bird that I cannot think other than that it is a subspecies 
of that bird. It is larger, less white, longer tail, and the cinnamon colour 
continued almost up to the crown of head.” 
Writing about the birds on the East Murchison, mid-West Australia, 
Whitlock recorded : “ Black-vented Ground-Bird ( Cindosoma marginatum). I 
was well acquainted with this species, having obtained half a dozen specimens 
in the neighbourhood of Lake Austin some six years previously. A pair of 
these have been mounted, and for several years have been on exhibition in 
the Perth Museum. Unfortunately, I left Lake Austin for the neighbourhood 
of Yalgoo, a locality much nearer the coast, before the breeding-season had 
really commenced. On arriving at Wiluna, I soon found my birds in the 
ferruginous country in and around the auriferous belt, and, not being a shy 
bird, I have more than once seen individuals within a quarter of a mile 
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