THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
abdomen and under tail-coverts buffy-white ; axillaries white at the base and 
black on the apical half ; marginal under wing-coverts white, the remainder dark 
brown ; under-surface of flight-quills dark brown, white at the base of the inner 
ones and fading to buffy-white on the middle of the wing ; lower aspect of tail 
similar to that of its upper-surface. Bill dark brown ; eyes dusky ; feet and legs 
light yellow. Total length 270 mm. ; culmen 29, wing 143, tail 109, tarsus 34. 
Figured. Collected at Malanda, North Queensland, in September 1911. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface golden bronze-brown with dark margins 
to the feathers including the top of the head, nape, hind-neck, sides of the lower- 
neck, back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts, the last inclining to old-gold-yellow ; 
lesser upper wing-coverts uniform bronze-brown, the median and greater series 
blackish-brown with buffy-white tips ; bastard-wing uniform golden-bronze ; 
primary-coverts blackish on the inner webs and golden-bronze on the outer ones 
like the flight-quills which have a patch of white on the inner webs ; middle tail- 
feathers uniform golden-bronze, the outer feathers darker with buffy-white tips, 
the outermost feather on each side is much paler and has the apical portion of the 
inner web white ; lores cream-white ; sides of the face and sides of the neck cream- 
white with dark edges to the feathers ; a dark moustachial streak on each side of the 
throat ; throat buffy-white, becoming pale buff on the breast where the feathers 
have blackish margins ; lower-breast and sides of the body cream- white with 
blackish margins to the feathers, which are broader on the latter ; abdomen and 
under tail-coverts cream-white ; axillaries white with black tips, the long ones 
white on the apical portion like the inner margins of the quills below ; under wing- 
coverts, and the marginal under wing-coverts white, the, inner ones like the under- 
surface of the flight-quills ; lower aspect of tail similar but paler on the tip and on the 
outer-feather on each side. Total length 250 mm. ; culmen 23, wing 125, tail 92, 
tarsus 27. Figured. Collected near Brisbane, Queensland. 
Nest. Cup-shaped. Composed outwardly of a coating of green moss, then strips of 
bark, etc., and lined with grass. Outside measurement 10 inches by 6 deep. Inside 
3 by 2 inches deep. 
Eggs. Clutch, two or three. Ground-colour buff, marked all over with reddish-brown 
markings. 34 mm. by 23. 
Breeding-season. July to October. 
This species was described by Latham from one of the Watling drawings, 
but no note of its habits was there given. In the collection of the Linnean 
Society was a specimen “ the only specimen Mr. Caley ever met with ; it was 
much shattered by the contents of his gun,” and this was referred to T Urdus 
varius, a species just previously described by Horsfield from Java. 
Gould named it Oreocincla novcehollandice and described another species 
as O. macrorhyncha but soon recognised that Latham’s name was available 
and therefore used it, writing of its habits as : “In all localities suitable to its 
habits and mode of life this species is tolerably abundant, both in Tasmania 
and in New South Wales ; it has also been observed in South Australia, where, 
however, it is rare. From what I saw of it personally, I am led to infer that 
it gives a decided preference to thick mountain forests, where large boulder 
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