Order PASSERIFORMES. Family TURDIDM 
No. 521. 
PAREPTHIANURA TRICOLOR. 
TRICO LOURED CHAT. 
(Plate 439 (left hand figures.) ) 
Ephthianura tricolor Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 159, July 1841 : South 
Australia. 
Ephthianura tricolor Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 159, 1841 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. vn. (Vol. III., pi. 66), June 1st, 1842 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 380, 
1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 186, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 667, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 30, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 284, 1901; Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 52, 1902 (N.W.A.); North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 347, 1904; Berney, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 44, 1904 (N.Q.) ; 
Lawson, id., p. 135, 1905 (W.A.) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. Nil., p. 227, 1905 
(N.W.A.) ; Hall and Rogers, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 139, 1908 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, 
Hand!. Birds Austral., p. 73, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 181, 1908 (W.A.) ; 
Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1909, p. 680 (W.A.) ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 197, 1910 
(W.A.) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 26, 1913 (S.A.) ; Witmer Stone, Austral 
Av. Rec., Vol. I., pts. 6-7, p. 162, 1913 ; Barrett, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 16, 1916 
(N.S.W.). 
Epthianura tricolor tricolor Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 341, Jan. 31, 1912. 
EptJiianura tricolor assimilis Mathews, ib., : Lake Way, West Australia. 
Epthianura tricolor distincta Mathews, ib., Alexandra, Northern Territory ; Montague, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1914, p. 634 (Monte Bello Island.). 
Parepthianura tricolor Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 207, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. 
XVIII., p. 21, 1918; id., ib., p. 197, 1919. 
Parepthianura tricolor tricolor Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 207, 1913. 
Parepthianura tricolor assimilis Mathews, ib. Carter, Ibis, 1917, p. 588; id., ib., 1921, 
p. 56. 
Parepthianura tricolor distincta Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Australia generally, probably not extreme North ; Tasmania. 
Adult male. Sides of face, sides of neck, hind-neck, back and wings greyish-smoke- 
brown, with pale edges to the feathers on the last ; tail-feathers dark brown tipped 
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