EMU-WREN. 
which extends over the eye ; the short feathers round the eye whitish ; sides of 
face similar to the crown of the head with whitish shaft-lines to the feathers ; throat, 
cheeks, and fore-neck pale lavender-blue ; sides of neck, a band across the breast, 
sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts pale ferrugineous, remainder of breast 
and abdomen white ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner margins of flight- 
quills below cinnamon, remainder of quill-lining hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail 
whitish at the base, the remainder similar to its upper-surface. Eyes brown, feet 
light horn ; bill black. Total length 170 mm. ; culmen 8, wing 43, tail 116, tarsus 
20. Figured. Collected at Franketon, Victoria, on the 17th of May, 1909, and 
is the type of Stipiturus malachurus tregellasi. (Bottom left-hand figure.) 
Adult female. Crown of head and hind-neck black with olive-grey margins to the feathers, 
the margins becoming dark ochreous on the back and wings ; flight- quills hair- 
brown edged with buffy-white on the inner webs ; tail blackish, the webs disin- 
tegrated, and transparent ; sides of face rufous-brown minutely dotted with buffy- 
white ; rictal bristles black and well developed ; chin, throat, fore-neck, sides of 
breast, sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts cinnamon-rufous like the axil- 
laries, under wing-coverts, and inner margins of the quills below ; remainder of 
quill-lining hair-brown ; breast and abdomen white ; lower aspect of tail whitish 
at the base, the remainder blackish like its upper-surface. Eyes hazel ; feet 
dark yellow ; bill horn. Total length 163 mm. ; culmen 8, wing 42, tail 105, tarsus 
19. Figured. Collected at Selby, Victoria, on the 25th of December, 1911. (Top 
right-hand figure.) 
Adult male. Upper-parts dusky-brown, all the feathers mesially streaked with dark 
brown ; quills dark brown edged with rufous-brown ; tail-feathers disintegrated, 
are blackish or rufous-brown ; forehead and sides of crown chestnut ; throat a 
supraloral streak, which is continued over the eye, and foreneck pale blue ; remainder 
of the under-surface, including the under wing-coverts and under tail-coverts, 
tawny-rufous. Total length 127 mm. ; culmen 13, wing 39, tail 83, tarsus 15. 
Collected at Hopetown Mallee, Victoria, in 1906, and is the type of Stipiturus mallee 
Campbell. 
Adult female. General colour above dusky greyish-brown with dark brown shaft-streaks, 
inclining to rufous-brown on the wing-coverts ; primary and secondary- quills 
uniform pale brown ; tail dark brown with black shafts, which are somewhat paler 
at the base ; forehead and fore-part of head inclining to dark rufous ; ear-coverts 
brown with white shaft-streaks ; cheeks, chin, sides of neck, and entire under- 
surface bright cinnamon-rufous, becoming paler and less rufous on the abdomen 
and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and inner edges of quills also rufous ; 
all the feathers of the under-parts have dull black bases. Collected in the Mallee, 
Victoria. 
Adult male. Crown of the head and nape pale fulvous-brown with dark elongated centres 
to the feathers ; mantle, upper-back, and scapulars blackish-brown with drab- 
grey margins to the feathers, becoming more uniform grey on the lower back, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts where the feathers have blackish bases ; upper wing- 
coverts and flight-quills dark brown, or blackish, the feathers margined with grey ; 
tail blackish, slightly paler on the margins of the feathers, which are transparent 
and disintegrated ; rictal bristles black with white bases ; sides of face, including 
the eye, brown with bluish- white shaft-lines to the feathers ; chin, throat, and 
fore-neck lavender-blue with blackish bases to some of the feathers ; sides of neck, 
sides of body, thighs, and under wing-coverts rufous-buff, with blackish bases to 
the feathers on the flanks, middle of breast, middle of abdomen, and under tail- 
coverts paler than the flanks and inclining to whitish, the bases of the feathers 
are blackish like the flanks ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown ; lower aspect 
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