RED-THROAT. 
Adult male. Crown of head, nape, and hind-neck greyish-brown ; entire back, wings, and 
middle tail-feathers dusky brown with a tinge of grey on the outer aspect of wings ; 
outer tail-feathers darker than the middle ones and broadly tipped with white ; 
sides of face grey with dark bases to the feathers ; eyelids whitish ; lores buff with 
black hair-like tips to the feathers ; chin and throat pale rufous ; breast and sides 
of breast ash-grey ; sides of body buff tinged with grey ; abdomen and under 
tail-coverts cream-white more or less tinged with buff ; axillaries and under wing- 
coverts similar ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown, slightly paler on the 
margins ; lower aspect of tail blackish-brown broadly tipped with white. Eyes 
dark red, feet brown, bill horn. Total length 122 mm. ; culmen 10, wing 57, tail 50, 
tarsus 22. Figured. Collected at Bell-bird Bore, Mallee, Victoria, on the 24th of 
September, 1913. 
Adult female. General colour above dusky-brown, including the top of the head, back, 
and wings, with a tinge of grey on the sides of the neck and mantle ; upper tail- 
coverts and middle tail-feathers similar to the back but rather darker, outer tail- 
feathers blackish broadly tipped with white ; fore-part of head blackish-brown 
with pale margins to the feathers ; throat and lores pale buff with black hair-like 
tips to the feathers of the latter ; eye-ring white ; fore-neck, breast, and sides of 
breast ash-grey ; middle of abdomen white ; thighs dusky ; flanks and under 
tail-coverts buff ; axillaries and under wing-coverts cream colour ; under-surface 
of flight-quills pale brown with slightly paler edges ; lower aspect of tail blackish 
broadly tipped with white. Feet ashy-grey, bill black. Total length 114 mm. ; 
culmen 9, wing 56, tail 48, tarsus 21. Figured. Collected 90 miles west of 
Todmorden, South Australia, on the 8th of July, 1914. 
The female differs from the male in having the throat ashy-grey and the chin 
white. 
Immature take on the adult plumage practically from the nest. 
Immature. General colour of the upper-surface dark smoke-brown including the top 
of the head, back and wings ; the feathers of the bastard-wing fringed with whitish ; 
inner webs of flight- quills dark brown ; tail-feathers blackish-brown, the lateral 
ones tipped with white ; sides of face, chin, and throat earth-grey ; breast, abdomen, 
and under wing-coverts cream-white ; under tail-coverts buff ; under-surface of 
flight-quills hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but much 
p.aler. Eyes deep brown, feet grey, bill grey. Collected at Lake Way, West 
Australia, on the 17th of August, 1909. 
Nest. Bound with side entrance. Composed of bark-fibre and grass mixed together and 
sometimes lined with feathers. Measurement 4 inches across. 
Eggs. Clutch three or four. Ground-colour differing shades of brown, with larger end 
darker. 19-20 mm. by 15-16. 
Breeding-season. August to November ; March, April. 
This new genus and species were discriminated by Gould who discovered 
it, and his notes read : “I found this bird tolerably abundant in the Belts of 
the Murray, about forty miles to the northward of Lake Alexandrina, where 
it gave a decided preference to low-stunted bushes and fallen trunks of trees 
overgrown with herbage, under which it secreted itself : it sometimes rose to 
the top of a bush to sing, pouring forth a melody equal to any of the smaller 
birds of Australia, which must render it a general favourite when that portion 
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