THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
to the feathers ; the margins to the feathers of the bastard-wing and some of the 
flight-quills buffy-white ; primary-coverts and flight-quills dark hair-brown ; 
upper tail-coverts and base of tail rust-brown becoming blackish on the apical 
portion of the latter with white, or smoke- white tips to the feathers ; lores, eyelids, 
and superciliary streak white ; sides of face cinnamon-rufous ; throat, breast and 
abdomen cream-white with dark shaft-lines to the feathers ; thighs cinnamon- 
rufous , under tail-coverts buffy-white with dark central streaks ■ axillaries and 
lesser under wing-coverts cream-white, the greater series of the latter and inner 
margins of the quills below cinnamon-rufous ; remainder of quifl-lining dark hair- 
brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface. Bill and feet brown ; 
eyes yellow shading into brown. Total length 115 ; culmen 11, wing 55, tail 48* 
tarsus 22. Figured. Collected on the east side of Marbell Range, Eyre’s Peninsula^ 
South Australia, on the 31st of August, 1911, and is the type of Calamanthus 
campestris ethelce. 
Adult female. Crown of head rufous-chestnut with blackish centres to the feathers ; 
back, scapulars and upper wing-coverts rust-brown with dark brown shaft-lines to 
the feathers ; bastard-wing, greater coverts, and flight-quills hair-brown with 
whitish or rust-coloured margins ; upper tail-coverts inclining to rufous with dark 
shaft-lines ; tail-feathers rufous-brown with a blackish subterminal band and whitish 
tips to most of the feathers ; a whitish supraloral streak which extends over the 
eye and along each side of the crown ; sides of the face similar to the crown with 
whitish shaft-streaks to the feathers \ eyelids white j throat and upper-breast 
whitish with a tinge of rufous and dark shaft-lines to the feathers, becoming more 
uniform on the abdomen and more rufous on the sides of the body, thighs, and 
under tail-coverts ; the bases of the feathers on the under parts are dull black ; 
axillaries and under wing-coverts pale rufous like the inner edges of the quills below' 
remainder of quill-lining dark hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail rufous-brown, 
blackish subterminally and whitish at the tip. Bill dark horn, eyes warm brown, 
legs dull brown, feet darker. Total length 120 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 53, tail 44,' 
tarsus 21. Figured. Collected at Lake Way, Mid- west Australia, on the 21st 
of July, 1909, and is the type of Calamanthus campestris wayensis. 
Adult male. General colour above sandy-brown, becoming more rufous on the fore-part of 
the head, the feathers everywhere having dark shaft-lines ; upper wing-coverts more 
rufous than the back, some of the greater coverts have dark brown edges with white 
at the tips, which gives the appearance of a wing-bar ; primary-coverts and quills 
pale brown fringed with whitish, inclining to rufous on the secondary-quills ; upper 
tail-coverts uniform rufous ; middle tail-feathers pale brown with a black streak 
towards the end and obsolete wavy cross-bars, the outer-feathers subterminally 
black with white tips and edged with white or sandy-buff on the outer webs ; a 
white supraloral streak which extends over the eye and a spot under the eye of 
the same colour ; lores and ear-coverts pale rufous with minute white shaft-lines ; 
chin, throat, and fore-neck white with broad blackish shaft-streaks ; abdomen 
white washed with sandy-buff, more intensely on the sides of the body and under- 
tail-coverts, the feathers on the sides of the body have median streaks of brown ; 
under wing-coverts pale cinnamon-rufous ; thighs rufous. Total length 123 mm. ; 
culmen 12, wing 52, tail 44, tarsus 22. Collected at Point Cloates, Mid-west 
Australia, and is Calamanthus rubiginosus Campbell. 
Adult female. Similar in every respect to the adult male but with the characters a little 
more faintly pronounced. Total length 123 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 52, tail 45, 
tarsus 22. Collected at Point Cloates, Mid-west Australia. 
This bird appears to differ from C. campestris chiefly in being paler above, not 
so much rufous in the plumage, and the under-surface whiter. 
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