Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 573. 
Family SYLVIIDAS. 
DIAPHORILLAS WHITER 
RUFOUS GRASS-WREN. 
(Plate 470, right hand figures.)* 
Amytornis whitei Mathews, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. XXV., p. 34, Jan. 1st, 1910 : 
Coongan River, Mid-west Australia. 
Amytis striata Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 180, 1909 : Coongan River. 
Amytornis whitei Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXV., p. 34, 1910. 
Amytornis striatus Whitlock, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 204, 1910 : East Murchison. 
Amytornis striatus oweni Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXVII., p. 48, Jan. 23rd, 
1911 : East Murchison, West Australia. 
Diaphorillas striatus oweni Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 365, 1912. 
Diaphorillas striatus whitei Mathews, lb., p. 366. 
Amytornis rufa Hill, Emu, Vol. XII., pp. 248, 249, 1913 : nomen nudum ; Campbell and 
Kershaw, ib., p. 274-6, April 1st, 1913 : Interior of Northern Territory. 
Mytisa striata rufa Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 232, 1913. 
Mytisa striata oweni Mathews, ib. ; White, Emu, Vol. XV., p. 36, 1915. 
Mytisa striata whitei Mathews, ib. 
Diaphorillas striata rufa Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pp. 9 and 136, 1913, 1915. 
Amytornis striatus (pt.) Campbell, Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 81, 1918 ; (pt.) Keartland and 
others. 
Distribution. Central-west Australia and Interior of Northern Territory. 
Adult male. Fore-part of head and sides of crown blackish with white shaft-streaks like 
the feathers below and behind the eye ; hinder-part of head, hind-neck, sides of 
neck and mantle bright chestnut with white shaft-fines to the feathers ; back, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform bright chestnut ; upper wing-coverts and 
some of the innermost secondaries chestnut with white shaft-fines ; bastard- wing 
and some of the greater coverts edged and centred with white ; base of primary- 
quills chestnut ; flight-quills dark hair-brown with pale outer edges and more or 
less rufous on the inner ones ; tail dark brown with fulvous margins to the feathers, 
the outermost pair margined and tipped with whitish; lores and upper eyelid 
cinnamon-rufous ; rictal bristles black ; cheeks black ; chin and throat whitish ; 
breast, abdomen, sides of body, thighs and under tail-coverts pale fawn-colour, 
the breast and sides of breast indistinctly streaked with grey, the blackish bases 
to the feathers sometimes show through, which gives a blotched appearance ; 
* The plate is lettered Mytisa whitei. 
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