CRESTED BELL-BIRD. 
Oreoica cristata cristata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 376, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 245, 1913. 
Oreoica cristata clelandi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 376, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Coonalpyn, South Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 246, 1913 ; S. A. White, 
Emu, \ol. XIV., p. 189, 1915 (Central Australia) ; id., ib., Vol. XVI., p. 14, 1916 
(S.A.). 
Oreoica cristata pallescens Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 377, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Alexandra, Northern Territory ; id., Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 61, 1912 ; id. r 
list Birds Austr., p. 246, 1913. 
Oreoica cristata mungi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 377, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Mungi, 
North-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 246, 1913. 
Oreoica cristata westralensis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 377, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Broome Hill, South-west Australia ; id., Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 61, 1912 ; 
id., List Birds Austr., p. 246, 1913. 
Oreoica cristata lloydi Mathews, Ibis, 1917, p. 608, Oct. 10th : Dirk Hartog’s Island, West 
Australia ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. XX., p. 184, 1921 ; H. L. White, ib., p. 188. 
Distribution. Australia generally throughout the interior ; never strictly on the coastal 
forest country. Not Tasmania. 
Adult male. Fore-head, lores, fore-part of cheeks, chin, and throat white with black hair¬ 
like tips to the feathers ; the middle of the crown and elongated crest-feathers 
black; sides of crown, sides of face, sides of neck, and nape ash-grey ; eyelids, a 
line across the face joining the fore-neck, and upper breast soot-black, the shafts 
of the feathers on the last are nude at the tips ; back, wings, and tail bronze-brown 
with a wash of grey on the back ; rump and upper tail-coverts tinged with cinnamon, 
the feathers on the outer aspect of the wings have pale margins ; sides of breast grey 
slightly tinged with fawn colour ; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts fawn colour 
axillaries cream-w T kite ; under wing-coverts also cream-white tinged with yellow ; 
under-surface of flight-quills glossy brown ; low r er aspect of tail greyish-brown 
tinged with greenish-yellow. Eyes orange, bill black, legs and feet dark purple.. 
Total length 220 mm. ; culnien 18, wing 110, tail 90, tarsus 28. Figured. Collected 
at Broome Hill, South-west Australia, on the 1st of July, 1908, and is the type 
of 0. g. westralensis . 
Adult male. Fore-part of head, lores, fore-part of cheeks, chin and throat white with 
hair-like tips to the feathers on the chin; fore-part of crown and elongated 
crest-feathers black with white or grey bases ; crown of head, nape, and ear- 
coverts ash-grey; a line across the face, which joins the upper throat, soot- 
black like the low T er throat and upper breast; back, wings, and tail ochreous- 
browm, paler on the rump and tinged with cinnamon on the upper tail-coverts ;; 
inner-webs of flight-quills light hair-brown with pale margins ; tail dark hair- 
brown ; abdomen white ; sides of breast, sides of body, thighs, and under tail- 
coverts pale fawai colour ; under wing-coverts similar but paler ; axillaries white 
tinged with yellow'; under-surface of flight-quills pale hair-brown tinged with 
yellow; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface, but paler and tinged with 
yellow. Eyes orange, feet black, bill dark brown. Total length 190 mm. ; culmen 
13, wing 103, tail 73, tarsus 24. Figured. Collected on Alexander, Northern 
Territory, in July 1908. 
Adult female. Fore-part of head dusky-brown ; crest blackish ; hinder-portion of crown,, 
sides of crown, and nape grey with dark tips to some of the feathers on the last; 
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