Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 570. 
Family SYLVIIDAE. 
DIAPHORILLAS INEXPECTATUS. 
EASTERN GRASS-WREN. 
(Plate 469, two top figures.) 
Diaphorillas textilis INEXPECTATUS Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 365, Jan. 31st, 
1912 : New South Wales.* 
Amytis textilis (not of Dumont 1824) Gould, Birds Austr., pt. m. (Vol. III. pi. 28) 
June 1st, 1841 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 335, 1865. 
Diaphorillas textilis inexpectatus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 365, 1912 • id 
List Birds Austr., p. 232, 1913. 
Amytornis modestus (not of North) S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 28, 1913 (S.A.). 
Diaphorillas textilis myall Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 90, July 7th, 
1916 : Myall Creek, Cariewerels, Gawler Ranges, South Australia. 
Distribution. New South Wales and South Australia. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface dark smoke-brown with white narrow 
shaft-lines to the feathers on the top of the head, sides of face, sides of neck, hind- 
neck, back, scapulars, upper tail-coverts and upper wing-coverts ; fore-part of 
head rather darker than the back, the white shaft-streaks only slightly shown on 
the rump and upper tail-coverts ; flight -quills hair-brown margined with cinnamon- 
rufous on the basal portion of the inner-webs ; tail-feathers dark hair-brown with 
pale edges and obsolete cross-bars ; rictal bristles black and directed laterally ; 
the feathers in front of the eye and behind the nostrils fulvous at the base with 
black hair-like tips to the feathers like the chin ; throat, fore-neck, and breast 
fulvous with white elongated centres to the feathers, becoming more uniform on the 
sides of the body, thighs, abdomen and under tail-coverts ; axillaries, under wing- 
coverts and inner margins of flight-quills below bright cinnamon, remainder of 
quill-lining hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface, but rather 
paler. Eyes brown, feet brownish-black, bill slaty-black. Total length 167 mm. ; 
culmen 10, wing 64, tail 87, tarsus 25. Figured. Collected at Myall Creek, Carie- 
werels Station, Gawler Ranges, on the 16th of September, 1912, and is the type 
of Diaphorillas myall. 
Adult female. Differs in having a reddish patch on the sides of the body. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface pale smoke-brown with somewhat broad 
white shaft-lines to the feathers on the top of the head, sides of face, sides of neck, 
hind-neck, back, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts j fore part of head darker 
and inclining to blackish-brown like the cheeks ; rump and upper tail-coverts 
* As this is a skin from an old collection it may be from the Lower Namoi River. But this of course is 
only surmise. ’ ' 
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