Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 606. 
Family SPHENOSTOMIDM. 
APHELOCEPHALA PECTORALIS. 
CHESTNUT-BREASTED WHITEFACE. 
(Plate 494.) 
Xerophila PECTORALIS Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. IV., Vol. VIII., p. 192, Sept. 
1st, 1871 : Port Augusta, South Australia, error = Wanta Pilla Swamps, Central 
Australia. 
Xerophila peetoralis Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. IV., Vol. VIII., p. 192, 1871; id., 
Birds New Guinea, pt. i. (Vol. III., pi. 27), Dec. 1st, 1875 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 186, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 74, 
1883; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 30, 
1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 289, 1901. 
Aphelocephala pecloralis Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1899, p. 214; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 87, 1908; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 99, 1914; 
id., South Austr. Ornith., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 26, 1914; id., Trans. Roy. Soc. South 
Austr., Vol. XXXIX., p. 756, 1915. 
Aphelocephala peetoralis pecloralis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 378, 1912; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 246, 1913; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 189, 1915. 
Aphelocephala peetoralis todmordeni Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pts. 2-3, p. 35, 
Feb. 21st, 1923 : Todmorden, Central Australia. 
Distribution. Central Australia, near Oodnadatta. 
Adult male. Top of head and nape rust-grey with dark centres to the feathers ; fore-head 
black, minutely speclded with white, base of fore-head and lores cream-white ; sides 
of face dusky-brown speckled with whitish ; upper back and scapulars walnut-brown, 
inclining to chestnut on the rump where the base of the feathers are white; lesser 
and median upper wing-coverts rust-brown with dark centres to the last; bastard¬ 
wing blacldsh; primary-coverts and greater upper wing-coverts dark brown with 
pale margins ; flight-quills hair-brown with buffy-white inner margins, the innermost 
secondaries darker and the buff margins wider; upper tail-coverts rust-brown; 
tail-feathers dark brown with pale edges, the outer ones black tipped with white; 
chin white with hair-like tips to some of the feathers; throat and fore-neck white 
with blackish bases to the feathers ; breast and sides of breast hazel; abdomen 
and imder tail-coverts cream-white ; sides of body also white blotched with chestnut; 
thighs cinnamon; axillaries creain-w'hite; under wing-coverts grey tinged with 
cinnamon and having dark bars on the outer edge ; under-surface of flight-quills 
hair-brown with buff inner margins ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface. 
Eyes white, bill and feet black. Total length 105 mm. ; culmen 7, wing 58, tail 
39, tarsus 20. Figured. Collected at Todmorden, 60 miles west of Oodnadatta, 
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