Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 572. 
Family SYLVIIDAE. 
DIAPHORILLAS STRIATUS. 
STRIATED GRASS-WREN. 
(Plate 470, left hand, figures.)* 
Dasyornis striatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 143, March 1840 : Lower 
Namoi River, New South Wales. 
Dasyornis striatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 143, 1840. 
Amytis striatus Gould, Birds Austr., pt. ni. (Vol. III., pi. 29), June 1st, 1841 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Yol. I., p. 337, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 184, 
1878; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 107, 1883; Ramsay, Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 23, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Yol. I., p. 222, 1901 ; Carter, Emu, Yol. III., p. 37, 1903 (N.W. 
Cape) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 250, 1904 ; Whitlock, Emu, 
Vol. VIII., p. 180, 1909. 
Diaphorillas striata Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1899, p. 212. 
Amytornis striatus Sharpe, Hand!. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 246, 1903 ; Hartert, Nov. 
Zool., Vol. XII., p. 226, 1905 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 80, 1908 ; 
Howe, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 232, 1910 (Vic.) ; Wilson, ib., Vol. XII., p. 36, 1912 (Vic.) ; 
Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 41, 1913 (Vic.) ; Howe and Tregellas, ib., Vol. XIV., 
p. 72, 1914 (Vic.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 81, pi. xvi., 1918. 
Diaphorillas striatus howei Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXVII., p. 100, July 13th, 
1911 : Kow Plains, Victoria; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIIL, p. 365, 1912. \\ 
Diaphorillas howei White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 179, 1913 (S.A.). 
Mytisa striata Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 232, 1913. 
Mytisa striata striata Mathews, ib. 
Mytisa striata howei Mathews, ib. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface chestnut-brown with white shaft-lines 
to the feathers which are bordered with black, including the top of the head, hind- 
neck, and back, the black borders adjoining the white shaft-fines become obsolete 
on the rump and upper tail-coverts, where the blackish bases of the feathers show 
through and give a dark appearance ; lesser upper wing-coverts and base of primary- 
quills chestnut ; median and greater wing-coverts dark brown with white shaft- 
fines and pale fringes to the feathers ; flight-quills dark hair-brown with pale edges 
to the outer webs and buff margins on the inner ones ; tail blackish-brown with 
obsolete cross-bars and whitish tips and margins to some of the feathers ; the feathers 
* The Plate is lettered Mytisa striata. 
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