Order PASSERIFORMES t| Family SYLVIIDIE. 
No. 566. 
DASYORNIS LONGIROSTRIS. 
LONG-BILLED BRISTLE BIRD. 
(Plate 466, top figure.)* 
Dasyornis LONGIROSTRIS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 170, July 1841 : “ Swan 
River, West Australia,” 
Dasyornis longirostris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 170, 1841 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. v. (Vol. III., pi. 33), Dec. 1st, 1841. 
Sphenura longirostris Gray, Gen. Birds, Vol. I., p. 167, 1848 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 343, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 185, 1878 ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 105, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 23, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Yol. T., p. 219, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., 
p. 245, 1904 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 79, 1908 ; id., Nov. Zool., Yol. 
XVIII., p. 364, 1912; Witmer Stone, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 166, 1913; 
Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 230, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XX., p. 127, 1921. 
Sphenura hrachyptera longirostris Carter, Ibis, 1921, p. 63. 
Distribution. South-west Australia. Extreme corner from Kang George’s Sound to 
Swan River. 
Adult. Crown of head bronze-brown with glossy grey tips to the feathers, becoming darker 
and inclining to black on the mantle and sides of neck ; lower back, rump, and upper 
tail-coverts dark chestnut-brown ; tail similar but paler ; outer aspect of wing also 
chestnut-brown ; inner webs of flight-quills dark brown ; rictal bristles black, 
numerous and directed laterally ; sides of face similar to the top of the head but paler 
and having whitish shafts to the feathers ; eye-ring greyish-white ; chin and throat 
greyish-white ; breast grey tinged with bronze ; middle of abdomen greyish- 
white ; sides of body, thighs, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts bronze- 
brown, somewhat darker on the lower flanks ; under-surface of flight-quills dark 
brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface, with pale shafts to the 
feathers. Total length 170 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 65, tail 77, tarsus 24. Figured. 
Collected at King George’s Sound in Western Australia on the 17th of August, 1883, 
and is Sphenura longirostris ma&tersi. (Top fig. ) 
The sexes are alike. 
Nest. “ Oval with side entrance, composed entirely of dried, hollow grass stalks with a 
small portion of grass of a finer description placed inside at the bottom of the nest. 
6 inches in length by 5 wide and four high.” (North.) 
* This Plate is lettered Sphenura longirostris. 
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