Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 574. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
EYRAMYTIS GOYDERI. 
LAKE EYRE GRASS-WREN. 
(Plate 471.) 
Amytis goyderi Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. IV., Vol. XVI., p. 286, Oct. 1st, 1875: 
Lake Eyre, South Australia. 
Amytis goyderi Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. IV., Vol. XVI., p. 286, 1875 ; id., Birds 
New Guinea, pt. ii. (Vol. 3, pi. 8), Jan. 1st, 1876 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 184, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 109, 1883 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Aust. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 23, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 223, 1901 ; Heartland, Viet. Nat., 
Vol. XX., p. 137, 1904. 
Amytornis goyderi Sharpe, Hand! Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 246, 1903 ; Mathews, Hand! 
Birds Austral., p. 80, 1908. 
Diaphorillas goyderi Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1899, p. 212 ; Mathews, 
Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 366, 1912. 
Eyramytis goyderi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 233, 1913. 
Distribution. Near Lake Eyre, South Australia. 
Adult {female ?). General colour of the upper-surface cinnamon-brown with white shaft- 
lines to the feathers, including the top of the head, sides of face, sides of neck, hind- 
neck, upper-back, scapulars and upper wing-coverts ; flight-quills light hair-brown, 
paler on the shafts and margins ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts rather 
darker in colour and uniform in contrast to the upper-back ; tail-feathers, which 
are much abraded, are similar in colour to the flight-quills ; rictal bristles black 
and few in number ; the feathers on the lower cheeks are dark brown with white 
shaft-lines ; the feathers on the chin are white in colour but bristly in texture ; 
throat, breast and middle of abdomen cream-white ; sides of body chestnut becoming 
paler and inclining to cinnamon-buff on the thighs, under tail-coverts and under 
wing-coverts ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with buff margins ; lower 
aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but rather darker. Total length 147 mm. ; 
culmen 10, wing 54, tail 72, tarsus 26. Figured. Collected at Macumbra, Central 
Australia (27° 41'-23"). The adult female seems to have the reddish patch on the 
sides of the body. 
Adult ( male ?). General colour of the upper-parts cinnamon-rufous with white streaks 
to the feathers, including the top of the head, hind-neck, sides of face, sides of neck, 
back, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts ; major-coverts, primary-coverts, and 
flight-quills hair-brown with pale shafts and pale margins ; tail-feathers dark brown 
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