THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Cinura torquata Brehm, Isis, 1845, heft 5, col. 358, May : New South Wales. 
Acanthylis albifrons “ Boie ” Gray, Gen. Birds., App., p. 9, 1849. 
Epthianura albifrons albifrons Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 340, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 207, 1913. 
E'pthianura albifrons tasmanica Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 340, Jan. 31, 1912 : 
Tasmania ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 207, 1913. 
Epthianura albifrons westralensis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 341, Jan. 31, 
1912 : Wilson’s Inlet South-west Australia ; id. , Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I.,p. 59, 
1912; id., List Birds Aust., p. 207, 1913; Carter, Ibis, 1917, p. 588; id., ib., 
1921, p. 56. 
Distribution. Southern Australia from New South Wales to South-west Australia and 
Tasmania. 
Adult male. Fore-part of head, sides of face, throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 
white ; back, upper wing-coverts, sides of body and under wing-coverts slate-grey ; 
back of head, sides of neck, and a band across the breast black ; bastard-wing, 
median and greater upper wing-coverts, primary-coverts, and flight-quills, above 
and below, dark smoke-brown like the under wing-coverts ; thighs rust-brown ; 
upper tail-coverts black ; tail black, the apical portion of the inner webs white. 
Bill and feet black, eyes white. Total length 116 mm. ; culmen 10, wing 71, tail 
42, tarsus 19. Figured. Collected on Flinders Island, Bass Straits, on the 24th 
of November, 1912. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface slate-grey including the top of the head 
sides of face, sides of neck, hind-neck, back, scapulars, and lesser upper wing-coVerts ; 
bastard-wing, median and greater upper wing-coverts, primary-coverts and flight- 
quills dark brown ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers blackish-brown with an 
oval spot of white on the inner webs at the tips of the latter ; throat, abdomen, 
and under tail-coverts white ; a band of black across the breast ; sides of body 
inclining to grey ; under wing-coverts dark smoke-brown ; under-surface of flight- 
quills dark brown ; lower aspect of tail blackish-brown with white at the tips of 
the feathers. Bill and feet black, eyes pale red. Total length 120 mm. ; culmen 10, 
wing 70, tail 40, tarsus 18. Figured. Collected at Broome Hill, South-east 
Australia, on the 6th of May, 1906. 
Immature female. General colour of the upper-surface earth-brown including the crown 
of the head, entire back, and outer aspect of the wings ; bastard-wing, primary- 
coverts and inner webs of the flight-quills blackish-brown ; tail also blackish-brown 
with a large patch of white on the inner webs at the tip of some of the feathers ; 
lores and a line above the eye white ; sides of the face similar to the crown of the 
head ; chin and throat white ; a band across the chest and the sides of the body 
earth-brown like the thighs ; abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; axillaries, 
under wing-coverts and under-surface of flight-quills smoke-brown ; lower aspect 
of tail blackish-brown with more or less white at the tip. Eyes dark, feet black, 
upper mandible black, lower with brown base and tip black. Collected North- 
west of Port Augusta, South Australia, on the 6th of October, 1911. 
Male fledgling. Crown of head, hind-neck, sides of neck, and a narrow band across the 
breast mouse-brown ; back, outer margins of greater upper wing-coverts and 
secondary- quills rust-brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, inner webs of greater 
coverts and flight-quills dark brown ; tail blackish-brown, the lateral feathers 
white on the inner webs ; sides of face grey ; chin and throat greyish-white ; 
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