LAKE EYRE GRASS-WREN. 
with obsolete cross-bars and buff, or whitish margins ; a small tuft of bristles in 
front of the eye, which are white at the base and black at the tips ; the feathers 
on the lower cheeks black with white shafts ; throat and breast cream-white ; 
sides of body, thighs, abdomen and under tail-coverts pale cinnamon-buff ; under 
wing-coverts and margins of flight-quills below cinnamon-rufous ; remainder of 
quill-lining hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but rather 
paler and the shafts of the feathers inclining to white towards the base. Total 
length 145 mm. ; culmen 10, wing 57, tail 72, tarsus 24. Collected at the same 
place as the other. These are the only two known to me. 
Nest and eggs not described. 
Nothing is known of its life-history. 
The unique specimens bear a label “ Amytis ? Macumbra. Lat. 27° 41' 23V’ 
It has not since been met with, though sometimes records have been 
given which later proved to refer to another bird. 
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