Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 551. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
ACANTHORNIS MAGNUS. 
SCBUB-TIT. 
(Plate 458.) 
Acanthiza MAGNA Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pt. 2, pi. 28, Sept. 1st, 1855 : Tasmania. 
Acanthiza magna Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pt. 2, pi. 28, 1855 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 373, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 185, 1878. 
Sericornis magna Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 308, 1883; Ramsay, Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 26, 1899 ; Mathews, Nov. 
Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 357, 1912. 
Acanthornis magna * Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, pp. 236, 240, 1887; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 241, 1904 ; Littler, Emu, Vol. II., p. 169, 
1903; (Legge), lb., Vol. III., p. 162, pi. ix., 1904; A. G. Campbell, ib., Vol. IV, 
p. Ill, 1905; A. L. Butler, ib., Vol. V., p. 156, 1906; Campbell, ib., Vol. VI., 
p. 126, 1907; A. L. Butler, ib., Vol. VII., p. 92, 1907; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 77, 1908 ; Thompson, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 40, 1911 ; Littler, Handb. 
Birds Tasmania, p. 40, 1910 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 223, 1913. 
Acanthornis gouldi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 61, April 7th, 1916 : new 
name for A. magna Gould (errore). 
Distribution. Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper parts dark chocolate-brown including Vhe top 
of the head, back, wings and tail ; bastard-wing blackish tipped with white like some 
of the lesser coverts ; primaries blackish ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish 
fringed with white, which extends to the tips of some of the innermost ; tail subter- 
minally banded with black and fringed with white at the tips of some of the feathers ; 
sides of face including the lores dusky grey, somewhat paler on the latter ; chin 
and throat white, becoming yellowish-white on the breast, abdomen and under 
tail-coverts ; sides of body and thighs smoke-brown ; axillaries and under wing- 
coverts white, more or less tinged with yellow ; under-surface of flight-quills dark 
hair-brown fringed with white ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface 
but paler. Bill dark horn, feet flesh. Total length 130 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 58, 
tail 50, tarsus 24. Figured. Collected on Mount Arthur, Tasmania, on the 11th 
of November, 1914. 
Adult female similar to the adult male. 
* Also spelt magnus. 
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