Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 529. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
EREMIORNIS CARTERI. 
SPINIFEX BIRD. 
(Plate 446.) 
Eremiornis carteri North, Viet. Naturalist, Yol. XVII., No. 4, p. 79, Aug. 9th, 1900 ; 
North-west Cape, West Australia. 
Eremiornis carteri North, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XVII., p. 79, 1900 ; id., ib., p. 93 ; 
id., ib., Vol. XIX., pi. at p. 71 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs, Austr. Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 1083, 1901 ; Sclater, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. XII., p. 51, 1902 ; 
North, Ibis, 1902, p. 608, pi. xiv. ; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. 110, 1902 ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 252, 1904 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 226, 
1905; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. Ill, 1906; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral, p. 74, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 181, 1908 ; Mathews, Nov. 
Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 345, 1912 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 168, 1918 ; H. L. 
White, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 128, 1918; Whitlock, ib., p. 250, pi. XL., 1919; 
Campbell, ib., p. 258. 
Eremiornis carteri assimilis Montague, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 8, p. 181, March 20, 
1913: Hermite Island, Monte Bello I.; id., Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 634, 1914; 
Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 212, 1913 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 178, 1918. 
Eremiornis carteri rogersi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 8, p. 192, March 20, 1913 : 
Halls Creek, Kimberley Gold Fields, North-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., 
p. 212, 1913. 
Eremiornis carteri carteri Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 212, 1913 ; Carter, Ibis, 1921, p. 57. 
Distribution. Mid- and North-west Australia. Barrow and Monte Bello Islands. 
Adult female. General colour above rufous-brown, including the head, back, and wings, 
somewhat brighter on the fore-part of the head ; inner webs of flight-quills pale 
hair-brown with buff inner margins ; tail dark brown with obsolete wavy cross- 
bars and slightly paler edges to some of the feathers ; lores, feathers above and 
below the eye, sides of crown, and ear-coverts silvery-grey, somewhat darker on 
the last ; sides of neck tinged with drab-grey ; throat, breast, and middle of abdomen 
buffy-white with blackish bases to the feathers ; sides of body, thighs, and under 
tail-coverts fawn colour, the long under tail-coverts blackish subterminally ; 
under wing-coverts and inner margins of quills below buffy-white, remainder of 
quill-lining pale hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail blackish-brown with pale tips 
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