Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 514. 
Family CINCLOSOMA T1DJE. 
MORGANORNIS RUFICEPS. 
CHESTNUT-CROWNED BABBLER. 
(Plate 433, lower figure.) 
Pomatorhinus rueiceps Hartlaub, Rev. Mag. de Zool., 1852, p. 316, July Number, 
published August. “Adelaide, South Australia ”= Broken Hill. 
Pomatorhinus ruficeps Hartlaub, Rev. Mag. de Zool., 1852, p. 316 ; id., Journ. fur Om., 
1853, p. 31; Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. 38 (pt. ii.), Sept. 1st, 1855; Kreflt, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.), 1858, p. 352 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., 
p. 420, 1883 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 29, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 273, 1901 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 71, 1908 ; id., Nov. 
Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 335, 1912. 
Pomatostomus ruficeps Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 484, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 188, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 12, 1888 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 364, 1904; Mathews, List Birds 
Austr., p. 202, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XV., p. 160, 1916 (Cent. A.) ; id., ib., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 21, 1918 (S.A.). 
Pomatostomus ruficeps bebba Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 60, April 7, 
1916 : South Queensland. 
Pomatostomus ruficeps parsonsi Mathews, Bull, Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXVIII., p. 48, 
March 4, 1918 : Pungonda, South Australia. 
Distribution. Adjoining portions of interior of South Queensland, New South Wales, 
Victoria and South Australia. 
Adult. Crown of head and nape dark chestnut ; upper-back a,nd scapulars slate-grey with 
dark centres to the feathers, becoming uniform on the lower-back and rump ; lesser 
upper wing-coverts dark brown edged with slate-grey, the median and greater series 
also dark brown margined with white at the tips like the innermost secondary quills ; 
bastard-wing and primary-coverts dark brown slightly marked with white at the 
tips ; flight-quills hair brown, paler on the outer and inner margins ; upper tail- 
coverts blackish with dark smoke-brown margins ; central tail-feathers blackish, 
the lateral ones black broadly tipped with white ; lores and feathers in front of the 
eye black ; a supraloral stripe of buffy-white which extends above the eye and along 
the sides of the crown on to the sides of the nape ; hinder-portion of eyelid and sides 
of face dark brown, the upper and lower portions of the eyelids white ; chin, throat, 
breast and middle of abdomen cream-white ; sides of body and thighs dark dusky- 
bronze-brown ; the feathers on the sides of the breast which divide the white from 
the dusky olive-brown are partially black ; the feathers of the vent and under tail- 
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