Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 528. 
Family SYLVIID/E. 
DULCIORNIS ALISTERI. 
TAWNY GRASS-BIRD. 
(Plate 445.) 
Megalurus alisteri alisteri Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 345, Jan. 31, 1912 : 
Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia. 
Megalurus galactotes Y igors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 228, 1827. 
[Not Malurus galactotes Terruminck and Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois, livr. 11, pi. 65, 1823.] 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 127, 1883 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 24, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 225, 1901 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1., Vol. I., p. 254, 1904; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., 
p. 226, 1905, N.W.A. ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 74, 1908 ; Hill, Emu, 
Vol. X., p. 278, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 27, 1911 (N.Q.) ; 
MacgiUivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 171, 1914 (N.Q.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., 
p. 224, 1917 (N.T.); Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 27, 1917 (N.Q.) ; 
MacgiUivray, ib., p. 201, 1918 (N.Q.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XX., p. 62, 1920 (N.Q.). 
Sphen^acus galactotes Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxvi. (Vol. III., pi. 35), March 1st, 1847 ; id., 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 399, 1865; Biggies, Orn. Austr., pt. xiv., 1867. 
Megalurus alisteri alisteri Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 345, Jan. 31, 1912 : Napier 
Broome Bay, North-west Australia. 
Megalurus alisteri dulciei Mathews, ib. : Cooktown, North Queensland. 
Megalurus alisteri oweni Mathews, ib. : New South Wales. 
Megalurus alisteri melvillensis Mathews, Austral. Av. Bee., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 92, Sept. 18, 
1912 : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Dulciornis alisteri alisteri Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 211, 1913. 
Dulciornis alisteri melvillensis Mathews, ib., Ibis, 1914, p. 124. 
Dulciornis alisteri dulciei Mathews, ib. 
Dulciornis alisteri mayi Ashby, South Austr. Ornithologist, Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 27, Oct. 1914 : 
Pine Creek, Northern Territory. 
Distribution. Tropical Northern Australia. 
Adult male. Crown of head and nape chestnut-brown with dark centres to the feathers ; 
upper-back, and upper wing-coverts ochreous, the feathers broadly centred with 
black on the upper back but much more narrowly on the upper tail-coverts and 
obsolete on the rump and lower back ; greater upper wing-coverts and flight-quills 
blackish, broadly margined with ochreous, somewhat paler and more hair-brown 
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