THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Adult male. General colour above including the top of the head, back, wings, and tail 
olive-green ; bastard-wing, greater coverts, and primary-coverts dark brown 
with pale edges to the feathers ; flight-quills blackish-brown slightly fringed with 
citron-yellow on the outer webs and margined with white on the inner ones ; the 
apical portion of the tail has a greyish tinge and a broad blackish subterminal band ; 
base of fore-head and sides of face rather paler than the top of the head with pale 
shaft-lines to the feathers on the latter ; chin and throat pale buff ; breast, abdomen, 
sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts yellow ; axillaries, and under wing-coverts 
sulphur-yellow ; under-surface of flight-quills dark hair-brown with whitish 
edges ; lower aspect of tail dark brown with pale grey tips to the feathers. Bill 
and feet black, lower mandible with base pallid. Eyes coffee-brown. Total length 
85 mm. ; culmen 8, wing 50, tail 35, tarsus 17. Figured. Collected on the Bunya 
Mountains, Queensland, on the 6th of October, 1919, and is the type of A. n. burtoni. 
Adult female. From the same locality, similar to the adult male. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface olive-green, including the top of the head, 
back, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts ; bastard-wing and 
primary-coverts dark brown more or less margined with olive-green ; flight-quills 
blackish-brown edged with olive-green on the outer webs and with white on the 
inner ones ; base oi tail similar to the back with a blackish-brown subterminal 
band and greyish-brown tips to the feathers ; base of fore-head, base of lores, and 
feathers above the eye whitish with black hair-like tips to the feathers, like those 
in front of the eye ; ear-coverts dusky-brown with pale shaft-streaks to the feathers ; 
throat and upper-breast pale buff ; lower breast, abdomen, sides of body, thighs’ 
and under tail-coverts dull pale sulphur-yellow ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, 
and inner margins of quills below white; remainder of quill-lining dark hair- 
brown ; lower aspect of tail dark brown with dull grey tips to the feathers. Bill 
and feet black, eyes brown. Total length 88 mm. ; culmen 8, wing 52, tail 38, 
tarsus 18. Figured. Collected on Kow Plains, N.W. Victoria, on the’ 11th of 
September, 1912. 
Adult female from the same locality, similar to the adult male. 
Nest. Oval with a side entrance near the top. Composed outwardly of bark, grass, etc., 
matted together with spiders’ webs and ornamented sometimes with green mosses. 
Dimensions 3| inches long by 2-|- wide. 
Eggs. Clutch, three or four. Whitish, freckled with reddish-brown and lavender, 
especially on the larger end. 16-17 mm. by 11-12. 
“ Typically the eggs of this species may be distinguished from those of any other 
of the genus by the darker colour and larger size of the markings.” (North.) 
Breeding- season. August to December. 
This species was apparently discovered by Mr. Caley, as when Vigors and 
Horsfield described it from the collection of Australian birds in the Linnean 
Society, they wrote : “ We are informed by Mr. Caley that these birds were 
found in the green wattle trees about his house in great numbers.” 
Gould’s notes read : “ This little bird, which is very generally distributed 
over the colonies of New South Wales and South Australia, frequents the extremi- 
ties of the branches of various trees, without, so far as I could observe, evincing 
a partiality for any particular kind ; the Casuarince on the banks of the creeks. 
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