Order PASSERIFORMES. Family CINCLOSOMA TI DjE. 
No. 508. 
PYCNOPTILUS PLOCCOSUS. 
PILOT BIRD. 
(Plate 428.) 
Pycnoptilus eloccosus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1850, p. 95, March 14th, 1851 : 
interior of New South Wales (Blue Mountains). 
Pycnoptilus floccosus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1850, p. 95, 1851 ; id., ib., p. 279, 
after Jan. 1852 : New South Wales ; id., Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. 27 (pt. i.), March 15th, 
1851 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 348, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 185, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 342, 
1883; Ramsay, Proc. Linn Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, Vol. I., p. 1139, pi. xx., 1887; 
id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 28, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 258, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 309, 1904 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 130, 1907 ; 
E. E. Howe, ib., p. 183; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 69, 1908; Howe, 
Emu, Vol. IX., p. 41, 1909 ; id., ib., Vol. XIV., p. 192, pis. xx-xxn., 1915 (complete 
monograph) ; Lawrence and Littlejohns, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 191, pi. xlitl, 1917. 
Pycnoptilus floccosus floccosus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 331, 1912; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 198, 1913. 
Pycnoptilus floccosus sandlandi, Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 331, Jan. 31st, 
1912: Sassafras, Victoria; id., List Birds Austr., p. 199, 1913. 
Distribution. New South Wales ; Victoria. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface dark chocolate-brown including the 
top of the head, ear-coverts, sides of neck, hind-neck, back, scapulars, wings and 
tail ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish ; base of fore-head, lores, eyelids, fore-part 
of face, chin, and throat fulvous ; breast also fulvous with dark margins to the 
feathers which imparts a scalloped appearance ; sides of abdomen similar but 
duller ; middle of abdomen greyish-white ; sides of body dark smoke-brown like 
the thighs ; under tail-coverts chestnut ; axillaries rust colour ; under-surface of 
flight-quills dark brown ; lower aspect of tail pale chocolate-brown. Eyes salmon- 
pink ; feet dark brown ; bill horn. Total length 165 mm. ; culmen 13, wing 69, 
tail 69, tarsus 32. Figured. Collected at Selby, Victoria, on the 8th of April, 1912. 
Adult male. Similar to the adult female. 
Immature male. General colour of the upper-surface, including the top of the head, back, 
wings, and tail dark smoke-brown ; sides of the face similar to the top of the head 
but rather paler ; throat, breast and sides of the breast pale smoke-brown ; middle 
of the abdomen whitish ; lower flanks, and under tail-coverts chestnut ; thighs 
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