THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
The female differs from the male in having the abdomen chestnut, not cinnamon-rufous. 
Nest and eggs not described. Those described by Mr. H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 58, 
1914, are those of another species, the next. 
When Hartert met with this magnificent new species he wrote : u 16 
specimens from 10 miles east of South Alligator River, July and August, 
1903. Of these 15 (sic) birds, 7 are marked as males, which have all lighter, 
more cinnamon-chestnut abclomina, 7 as females, which have all the 
abdomen darker, of a deep chestnut, while one with a light abdomen is 
marked ‘ female,’ and one with a dark chestnut abdomen ‘ male.’ I have, 
therefore, no hesitation in assuming that these last two birds are erroneously 
sexed, and that the male has a lighter, more cinnamon, the female a darker, 
chestnut abdomen. ‘ but abdomen pale and therefore a male, shot in 
the granite ranges near the head of the South Alligator River, 20. v. 1903. 
‘ Runs very fast and hides under rocks.’ Although I have not been able 
to compare the type specimen, I believe this fine bird to be A. housei 
The confusion of a white-throated with a black-throated bird was 
pointed out, and Dr. Hartert named the present species and figured it in the 
Nov. Zool., Vol. XIII., p. 754, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1906, which figure may be contrasted 
with the one of A. housei given in the Emu , Vol. IV., pi. XIII., 1905. 
It does not appear to have since been met with, as the bird determined 
as A. woodwardi from the eastern part of the Northern Territory proves to 
be a distinct species, just treated of as M. dorotheae, q.v. In this latter species 
the sexes are alike. I therefore designate Dr. Hartert’s type of Amytornis 
woodwardi as equal to the bird I have described as a male ; and name the bird 
I have described as a female above as MAGNAMYTIS ALLIGATOR, 
nomen nov. 
