THE BIRDS OE AUSTRALIA. 
Megalurus flindersi Mellor and White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 162, Jan. 1913, n.n. ; White and 
Mellor, id., ib., p. 164 : Flinders I., Bass Straits. 
Poodytes gramineus gramineus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 210, 1913. 
Poodytes gramineus fiindersi Mathews, ib. 
Poodytes gramineus wilsoni Mathews, ib., p. 211; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 267, 1914. 
Poodytes gramineus goulburni Mathews, ib. 
Poodytes gramineus dubius Mathews, ib. ; Ashby, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 232, 1917 ; S. A. 
White, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 22, 1918. 
Poodytes gramineus halmaturinus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 211, 1913. 
Poodytes gramineus striatus Mathews, ib. 
Poodytes gramineus thomasi Mathews, ib. ; Carter, Ibis, 1921, p. 57. 
Poodytes gramineus milligani Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. IV., pt. 6, p. 137, Aug. 1st, 
1921. New name for M. striatus Milligan. 
Distribution. Extra-tropical Southern Australia and Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper, surf ace ochreous-brown with blackish elongated 
centres to the feathers, including the top of the head, back, wings, and tail, the 
margins on the inner secondaries much paler and inclining to white, the feathers 
on the mantle paler and inclining to grey ; flight-quills hair-brown, paler at the 
tip and along the inner margins ; lores and a line above the eye whitish ; sides of 
face ochreous-brown with more or less white intermixed ; throat, breast, and 
abdomen milk-white with minute dark centres to the feathers on the lower throat ; 
thighs rust-brown ; flanks ochreous-brown with dark shaft-lines to the feathers ; 
under tail-coverts similar but paler and uniform ; under wing-coverts buffy-white ; 
under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown slightly paler on the edges ; lower aspect 
of tail ochreous-brown. Bill light brown ; feet brown ; eyes brown. Total length 
145 mm. ; culmen 11, wing 61, tail 67, tarsus 19. Figured. Collected at Albert 
Passage, South Australia, on the 24th February, 1912. The sexes are alike. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface olive-brown with blackish centres to 
the feathers, which are small on the top of the head, hind-neck, and upper tail- 
coverts but much more extensive on the back and wings ; innermost secondaries 
margined with white ; flight -quills hair-brown with pale inner margins ; tail- 
feathers bronze-brown with blackish shafts ; lores and a line above the eye dull white ; 
sides of face olive-brown with more or less white intermixed ; throat, breast, and 
upper abdomen dull white with dark centres to some of the feathers ; lower abdomen, 
sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts olive-brown ; axillaries and under 
wing-coverts cream-white ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown ; lower aspect 
of tail bronze-brown. Total length 138 mm. ; culmen 9, wing 56, tail 60, tarsus 20. 
Figured. Collected at Goulburn, New South Wales, in May 1892, and is the type 
of Megalurus gramineus goulburni. The sexes are alike. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface ochreous-brown with blackish, or 
dark brown centres to the feathers on the top of the head, back, and wings ; flight- 
quills hair-brown, paler on the inner margins ; innermost secondaries margined 
with whitish ; tail-feathers similar to the lower back with blackish shafts ; lores 
and a line above the eye whitish ; sides of face whitish with dark tips and dark 
fringes to some of the feathers ; throat white ; fore-neck greyish-white with 
minute dark centres to the feathers ; breast and abdomen whitish ; flanks, thighs, 
and under tail-coverts pale ochreous ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner 
margins of quills below buffy-white, remainder of the quill-lining pale hair-brown ; 
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