Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 576. 
Family SYLVI1DM . 
MAGNAMYTIS WOODWARDI. 
WHITE-THROATED GRASS-WREN. 
(Plate 473.) 
Amytornis woodwardi Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XVI., p. 30, Nov. 29th, 1905 : 
South Alligator River (Arnhem Land), Northern Territory. 
Amylornis housei (not of Milligan, 1902) Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 225, 1905. 
Amytornis woodwardi Hartert, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. XVI., p. 30, 1905; id. , Nov. 
Zool., Vol. XIII., p. 754, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 80, 
1908. 
Diaphorillas woodwardi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 366, 1912. 
Magnamytis woodwardi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 223, 1913. 
Distribution. South Alligator River, Northern Territory. 
Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, sides of neck, sides of breast, hind-neck, and 
mantle black with white shaft-lines ; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts 
dark chestnut, with shaft-streaks to some of the feathers ; upper wing-coverts 
black, streaked with white, and fringed with chestnut ; flight-quills blackish-brown 
with traces of obsolete cross-bars ; tail blackish, also showing obsolete cross-bars ; 
rictal bristles black and directed laterally ; a broad black moustachial streak ; 
chin, throat, fore-neck and middle of breasts pure white ; abdomen and sides of 
the body cinnamon-rufous becoming dark chestnut on the lower flanks, thighs, and 
under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts cinnamon-rufous ; under-surface of flight- 
quills dark brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface. Eyes and 
feet brown. Total length 210 mm. ; cuknen 15, wing 78, tail 103, tarsus 26. 
Figured. Collected on the South Alligator River, Northern Territory, on the 10th 
of August, 1903. 
Adult female. Top of head, hind-neck, side of face, sides of neck, and mantle black with 
white shaft-lines ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark chestnut, some of the 
last longitudinally centred with black ; upper wing-coverts similar to the upper 
back ; flight-quills dull blackish-brown, the innermost secondaries narrowly fringed 
with rufous ; tail-feathers black, some of the feathers fringed with rufous ; rictal 
bristles black and directed laterally ; a black moustachial streak ; chin, throat, 
and fore-neck pure white ; sides and middle of breast black, broadly streaked with 
white ; abdomen, sides of body, thighs, under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts 
deeply coloured chestnut ; under-surface of flight-quills dark brown ; lower aspect 
of tail similar to its upper-surface, but paler. Eyes and feet brown. Total length 
210 mm. ; culmen 13, wing 72, tail 97, tarsus 25. Figured. Collected on the South 
Alligator River, Northern Territory, on the 9th of August, 1903. 
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