BABBLER. 
Pomatorhinus temporalis temporalis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 334, Jan. 31, 
1912. 
Pomatorhinus temporalis trivirgatus Mathews, ib. 
Pomatorhinus temporalis tregellasi Mathews, ib. : Frankston, Victoria ; id. , Austr. Av. 
Rec., Vol. I., p. 58, 1912; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 253, 1914. 
Pomatorhinus temporalis cornwalli Mathews, ib., p. 335, 1912 : Cairns, North Queensland. 
Pomatorhinus temporalis rubeculus Mathews, ib. 
Pomatorhinus temporalis nigrescens Mathews, ib. : Strelley River, North-west Australia ; 
id. , Austr. Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 58, 1912 ; id., South Austr. Omith., Vol. III., p. 139, 
1918 ; Soderberg, Kungl. Svenska Vetensk. Hand!, Bd. 52, p. 92, 1918. 
Pomatorhinus temporalis intermedius Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 335, Jan. 31, 
1912 : Alexandra, Northern Territory. 
Pomatorhinus temporalis barnba Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 43, April 2, 
1912 : Melville Island, N.T. 
Pomatostomus temporalis temporalis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 201, 1913. 
Pomatostomus temporalis trivirgatus Mathews, ib. 
Pomatostomus temporalis tregellasi Mathews, ib. 
Pomatostomus temporalis cornwalli Mathews, ib. 
Pomatostomus temporalis intermedius Mathews, ib., p. 202. 
Pomatostomus temporalis rubeculus Mathews, ib ; id. , Ibis, 1914, p. 123 ; Carter, Ibis, 
1921, p. 55. 
Pomatostomus temporalis nigrescens Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 202, 1913. 
Pomatostomus intermedius Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 170, 1914 (N.Q.). 
Distribution. Australia, save South and South-west Australia. Not Tasmania. 
Adult male. Fore-part of head, middle of crown, ear-coverts, hind-neck, and sides of neck 
ash-grey ; a broad line on each side of the crown, from the base of the fore-head 
to the sides of the nape, cream-white like the throat, fore-neck and upper-breast ; 
lores, eyelids, feathers below the eye, which extend on to the sides of the neck, 
blackish ; upper-back, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts greyish-brown, becoming 
dusky-brown on the lower back; greater upper wing-coverts, primary-coverts, 
outer webs and tips of flight-quills blackish-brown, inner webs of flight-quills for 
the greater part cinnamon-rufous ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers black with 
broad white tips to the latter ; lower breast and abdomen rust-brown ; sides of 
body, thighs, axillaries, and under wing-coverts dusky brown ; under tail-coverts 
blackish fringed with grey at the tips ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper- 
surface ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown, the middle portion pale cinnamon- 
rufous. Bill black with base of culmen and base of lower mandible greyish- white. 
Eyes grey, feet black. Total length 260 mm. ; culmen 28, wing 121, tail 123, 
tarsus 34. Figured. Collected at Frankston, Victoria, on the 20th of March, 1908, 
and is the type of P. t. tregellasi Mathews. 
Adult female. From the same locality similar. 
Adult male. Fore-part of head, sides of crown and sides of nape cream- white ; middle 
of crown, hind-neck, and sides of neck hoary-grey ; back dark brown with an olive 
tinge ; upper wing-coverts dark brown ; flight- quills dark brown on the outer 
webs becoming darker and uniform on both webs, inner webs of primaries cinnamon ; 
ramp and upper tail-coverts blackish ; tail-feathers black with broad white tips ; 
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