Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 511. 
Family CINCLOSOMA TID/E. 
PSOPHODES NIGROGULARIS. 
BLACK-THROATED CO ACH WHIP-BIRD. 
(Plate 431.) 
Psophodes nigrogularis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xv., July 1st, 1844: West Australia = 
King George’s Sound. 
Psophodes nigrogularis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xv., (Vol. III., pi. 16), July 1st, 1844 ; id., 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1844, p. 5, July; id. , Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
p. 314, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 184, 1878; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit Mus., Vol. VII., p. 351, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 
1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 29, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 268, 1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 72, 1902 (S.W.A.) ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 340, 1904; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, 
p. 70, 1908 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 201, 1913. 
Psophodes olivaceus nigrogularis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 334, 1912. 
Psophodes nigrogularis pallida Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 60, 
April 7, 1916 : South-west Australia — Cape Mentelle. 
Distribution. South-west Australia. ? Extinct. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface bronze olive-green including the hind- 
neck, sides of neck, sides of face, sides of breast, back, outer aspect of wing and tail ; 
inner webs of fliglit-quills dark brown ; outer tail-feathers sub-apically blackish 
and tipped with white ; crown of head and ear-coverts pale brown ; an irregular 
spot of black below the eye ; a white moustachial streak ; chin and throat black ; 
middle of breast bronze tinged with grey ; middle of abdomen pale grey ; sides 
of body bronze-brown or rust-brown ; thighs similar, becoming paler on the vent ; 
under tail-coverts bronze olive-green ; under wing-coverts dusky-brown ; under- 
surface of flight-quil s greyish-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper- 
surface but brighter in colour. “ Eyes dark brown, feet and bill dark horn.” 
Total length 250 mm. ; culmen 18, wing 80, tail 114, tarsus 31. Figured. 
Collected at Cape Mentelle, South-west Australia, on the 26th of December, 1901. 
Adult female. “ Similar to the adult male, but having the throat only dull black, and the 
feathers on the centre of the breast and the abdomen light ashy-brown.” (North.) 
Immature. “Young birds resemble the adults, but are destitute of the black throat 
and white cheek-stripe, these parts being ashy-brown slightly tinged with yellowish- 
olive.” (ib.) 
N est. “ Small saucer-shaped, built of twigs and placed in a low scrubby undergrowth.” (ib.) 
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