Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 530. 
Family SYL VII DM. 
ORIGMELLA SOLITARIA. 
ROCK-WARBLER. 
(Plate 446.) 
Sylvia solitaria Lewin, Birds New Holland, pi. xvi., 1808 : New South Wales. 
Sylvia solitaria Lewin, Birds New Holland, pi. xvi., 1808. 
Saxicola solitaria Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 236, 1827. 
Origma solitaria Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 3, April 1S38 ; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 148, Dec. 1838 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 346, 1912 ; List Birds Austr., p. 212, 1913. 
Origma rubricata [Not Sylvia rubricata Latham, Index Orn. Suppl., p. lv., 1801] Gould, 
Birds Austr., pt. xxhi. (Vol. III., pi. 69), June 1st, 1846 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 385, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 186, 1878 ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 135, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 9, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 24, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs, 
Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 226, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. I, Vol. I., 
p. 311, 1904; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 74, 1908. 
Origma solitaria ■pallida Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., No. 3, p. 60, April 7, 1916 : 
Blue Mountains, New South Wales. 
Origmella solitaria Mathews, ib., p. 66. 
Origmella solitaria solitaria Mathews, ib. 
Origmella solitaria pallida Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. New South Wales. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface dusky smoke-brown including the top of the 
head, back, upper tail-coverts and wings ; inner webs of flight-quills dark hair-brown, 
paler and inclining to buff towards the base and inner margins ; tail black with 
obsolete wavy cross-bars ; lores and sides of face paler than the crown and more 
or less tinged with rufous ; chin and throat dusky grey with black bases to the feathers, 
which show through more or less and give a spotted appearance ; fore-neck, breast 
and sides of breast chestnut becoming darker and much duller on the abdomen, 
sides of body, thighs and under tail-coverts ; axillaries, under wing-coverts 
and inner margins of quills below vinaceous, remainder of quill-lining dark 
hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail blackish-brown. Bill horn, legs and feet 
blackish ; eyes brown. Total length 130 mm. ; culmen 13, whig 72, tail 57, 
tarsus 26. Figured. Collected on the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in 
May 1915. 
Note. — T he italics are put in to show that "rubricata” cannot be used for this species. 
The sexes are alike. 
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