THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Hill, ib., p. 281, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 27, 1911 (N.Q.) ; Cleland, 
ib., p. 87 (Food) ; Shufeldt, ib., p. 201, pi. xx. (egg), 1912 ; Cleland, ib., Vol. XII., 
p. 12, 1912 (Food) ; Wilson, ib., p. 37 (Vic.) ; S. A. White, ib., p. 130 (S.A.) ; Mac- 
gillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 174, 1914 (N.Q.) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 142, 
1915 (Mallacoota) ; Austin, ib., p. 170, pi. xiv. (N.S.W.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. 
XVI., p. 230, 1917 (N.T.); Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 29, 1917 
(N.Q.) ; Redhead, ib., p. 110 (N.S.W.) ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 203, 1918 (N.Q.) ; 
Ford, ib., p. 236 ; Cleland, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 282, 1919 (N.S.W.) ; Kersey, ib., 
Vol. XIX., p. 52 (Q.) ; Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. XX., p. 88, 1920 (N.S.W.) ; 
Ashby, ib., p. 135, 1921 (W.A.) ; Alexander, ib., p. 166 (W.A.) ; Vidgen, 
ib., p. 228 (N.Q.) ; Le Souef, ib., p. 245 (N.W.A.). 
Grallina cyanoleuca cyanoleuca Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 371, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 240, 1913 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 300, 1914 ; S. A. White, 
Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 189, 1915. 
Grallina cyanoleuca neglecta Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 372, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia; id., Austral Av. Rec., Vol. 2, p. 60, 1912; 
id., List Birds Austr., p. 241, 1913; Soderberg, Kungl. Svenska Vet. Hand!, Band 52, 
p. 97, 1918. 
Distribution. Australia generally, but more or less restricted to interior owing to peculiar 
habits. Not coastal in heavy forest nor Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour both above and below black and white ; on the upper-surface, 
the black glossed with steel-blue, includes the top of the head, lores, feathers round 
the eye and those covering the nostrils, hind-neck, mantle and upper-back, scapulars, 
bastard-wing, flight-quills, and subterminal portion of tail. On the under-surface 
the same colour is continued on the chin, throat, sides of neck, under-surface of 
flight-quills, and a broad subterminal band on the tail. The white on the upper 
parts is distributed as follows : — a few white feathers on the fore-part of the head, 
a broad line over the eye, ear-coverts and a patch on the sides of the neck, lesser and 
greater wing-coverts, bases and tips of most of the flight-quills, lower back, rump, 
upper tail-coverts, and basal portion and tip of tail. On the under-parts the white 
includes the lower breast, abdomen, sides of body, thighs, axillaries, under wing- 
coverts, under tail-coverts, and the based portion and tip of tail. Eyes pale yellow, 
feet blue-black, bill white. Total length 282 mm. ; culmen 22, wing 180, tail 121, 
tarsus 43. Figured. Collected at Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, 
on the 13th of June, 1914. 
Adult female. Similar in general coloration to the adult male but differs in having the 
fore-part of the head, lores, fore-part of face, chin and throat white, and the space 
immediately above the eye black. Eyes pale yellow, feet blue-black, bill ivory- 
white. Total length 269 mm. ; culmen 20, wing 168, tail 109, tarsus 41. Figured. 
Collected at Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, on the 15th of January, 
1914. 
The eggs of this species are subject to considerable variation in their ground-colour and 
general disposition of the markings, as well as in their size and shape. In some 
instances the eggs are pure white, while on the other hand some forms have a beautiful 
pinkish ground-colour, very heavily blotched, and particularly at the larger end, 
with rich pinkish-red and pale purple. The eggs vary from three to six in number 
for a setting. The surface of the shell varies from smooth and glossy to dull and 
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