Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 523. 
Family TURDIDjE. 
LEACHENA CROCEA. 
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. 
(Plate 440, left hand figures.)* 
Epthianura crocea Castelnau and Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 380, 
March 1877 : Norman River, Queensland. 
Epthianura crocea Castelnau and Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 380, 1877 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 186, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. VII., p. 669, 1883 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, Vol. II., 
p. 168, 1887 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888 ; Gould, Birds New Guinea, pt. 
xxiv. (Vol. III., pi. 14), 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 30, 1899; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 286, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. 
No. 1, Vol. I., p. 352, 1904 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 227, 1905 (N.W.A.) ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 73, 1908 ; Macgilhvray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 
171, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 61, pi. xi., 1917. 
Epthianura crocea crocea Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 342, Jan. 31, 1912. 
Epthianura crocea tunneyi Mathews, ib. ; Arnhem Land = Alligator River, Northern 
Territory; id., South Austr. Omith., Vol. 3, p. 140, 1918. 
Aur epthianura crocea crocea Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 342, 1913. 
Aurepthianura crocea tunneyi Mathews, ib. 
Leachena crocea Mathews, Austral Av. Record, Vol. 3, p. 60, 1916. 
Leachena crocea crocea Mathews, ib. 
Leachena crocea tunneyi Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North Queensland, Northern Territory ; North-west Australia. 
Adult male. Eore-part of head dull crocus-yellow, fading into dark earth-brown on the 
hind-neck and back with dark shaft-streaks on the latter ; upper wing-coverts 
and inner secondaries blackish with yellow or whitish margins to the feathers; 
primary-quills rather paler and almost uniform ; rump and upper tail-coverts 
crocus-yellow ; tail-feathers blackish, broadly margined with buffy-white at the 
tips ; ear-coverts like the crown ; a dark mark in front of the eye ; throat, breast, 
under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts pale crocus-yellow, somewhat 
darker on the sides of the body ; a blackish band across the fore-neck ; under- 
surface of flight-quills dark brown ; lower aspect of tail blackisli with whitish 
tips to the feathers. Bill black, eyes white, feet brown. Total length 130 mm. ; 
cuLmen 11, wing 61, tail 37, tarsus 19. Figured. Collected on the Alligator River, 
Northern Territory, on the 29th of September, 1903, and is the type of E. c. tunneyi. 
* This Plate is lettered Aurepthianura crocea. 
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