THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
buffy-white ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but much paler. Bill 
and throat (inside) black, feet and legs dark brown, eyes reddish-brown with paler 
periphery. Total length 115 mm. ; culmen 8, wing 55, tail 47, tarsus 18. Figured. 
Collected on the Bunya Mountain, Queensland, on the 3rd of October, 1912, and 
is the type of Acanthiza pusilla bunya (pi. 448, middle left-hand figure). 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-parts, including the top of the head, sides of 
face and sides of neck, hind-neck, back, wings, and tail rust-brown, becoming deeper 
in colour on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; inner webs of flight-quills hair-brown 
with whitish margins ; a broad black subterminal band on the tail, which is much 
less pronounced on the middle feathers ; fore-part of head pale ferruginous with 
dark narrow margins to the feathers, which give a scalloped appearance ; throat 
and breast greyish-white streaked with blackish ; middle of upper abdomen 
yellowish- white ; sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts pale ochreous- 
brown ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and imier margins of quills below buffy- 
white ; remainder of quill-lining hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to its 
upper-surface, but much paler. Bill blackish-brown, feet and legs dark brown, 
eyes red. Total length 99 mm. ; culmen 8, wing 51, tail 43, tarsus 20. Figured. 
Collected at Myponga, South Australia, on the 20th of March, 1912, and is the 
type of Acanthiza pusilla samueli (pi. 448, bottom left-hand figure). 
Adult female. General colour above mouse-grey including the top of the head, sides of 
face, hind-neck, sides of neck, back and wings ; inner webs of flight-quills hair- 
brown with whitish margins ; upper tail-coverts rust-colour ; tail bronze-brown 
with a blackish subterminal band and smoke-grey or whitish tips to the feathers ; 
fore-part of head whitish with dark margins to the feathers, which gives a scaled 
appearance ; throat and breast white with dark edgings to the feathers ; abdomen, 
sides of body, and under tail-coverts pale isabelline ; axillaries and under wing- 
coverts whitish ; under surface of flight-quills hair-brown with buffy-white margins ; 
lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface, but paler. Bill brown, feet and 
legs brown ; eyes light red. Total length 106 mm. ; culmen 8, wing 50, tail 42, 
tarsus 18. Figured. Collected at Tanami Gold Fields, Northern Territory, on 
the 4th of March, 1910, and is the type of Acanthiza tanami (pi. 447, right- 
hand figure). 
Adult male. Upper-surface uniform olive-brown, including the head, hind-neck, back, 
and wings ; primary and secondary-quills dark brown with whitish edges on the 
outer webs ; upper tail-coverts inclining to chestnut-brown ; tail-feathers olive 
brown with a broad subterminal black bar except the middle ones, which have only 
a dark shaft-streak towards the tips ; fore-head chestnut-brown with pale bronzy 
edges to the feathers which gives a scalloped appearance ; cheeks dull white with 
minute blackish dots ; the feathers of the chin, throat, and breast are dark at the 
base with whitish lanceolate tips fringed with black which impart a streaked 
appearance ; sides of breast olive, becoming ochreous on the lower flanks ; middle 
of abdomen and under tail-coverts ochreous-white ; under wing-coverts white. 
Total length 103 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 52, tail 47, tarsus 23. Collected on 
Kangaroo Island in October 1905 and is Acanthiza pusilla zietzi. 
Adult male. Upper-surface olive-brown, including the head, wings, and back ; upper 
tail-coverts pale chestnut ; tail olive-brown with a dark brown subapical band 
and ash-colour tip ; quills pale brown with paler outer edges ; fore-head and 
ear-coverts ochreous-brown, with pale edges to the feathers which gives a scalloped 
appearance ; the feathers of the throat, fore-neck and breast, dark slate-colour 
at the base and whitish at the tips fringed with black, giving a more or less streaked 
appearance ; middle of abdomen and under tail-coverts yellowish-white ; sides 
of body, flanks, and thighs tinged with huffish ; under wing-coverts white. Total 
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