CHESTNUT-BREASTED WHITEFACE. 
or less tinged with, rust-brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills 
hair-brown with pale margins to the feathers ; the feathers on the rump tipped 
with white; upper tail-coverts similar to the back; tail blackish-brown with 
greyish-brown, or whitish tips to the feathers, the white extending along the margin 
of the outermost feather ; lores and base of fore-head cream-white, similar to 
the chin and throat; a very slightly indicated line on the sides of the crown; breast 
dull fawn-colour with dark tips to some of the feathers; abdomen and under tail- 
coverts white; sides of body also white with chestnut tips to the feathers ; thighs 
rust-brown; axillaries cream-white ; under wing-coverts and inner margins of 
flight-quills cinnamon; remainder of quill-lining hair-brown; lower aspect of tail 
similar to its upper-surface. Eyes brown, feet leaden-blue, bill leaden-brown, 
gape cream. Collected at Wantna Pilla Swamp, Central Australia, on the 21st 
of August, 1914. 
Immature female. Fore part of the head blackish-brown, becoming earth-brown on 
the crown with dark centres to the feathers, which become obsolete on the hind- 
neck ; entire back and scapulars rust-colour with dusky grey bases to the feathers ; 
upper wing-coverts earth-brown like the outer edges of the primaries; bastard¬ 
wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills dark brown, rather paler at the tips and 
along the inner margins ; upper tail-coverts earth-brown; central tail-feathers 
dark brown with obsolete cross-bars, the outer ones blackish tipped with white ; 
lores and base of fore-head buffy-white; sides of face greyish-brown with pale 
minute shaft-streaks ; throat whitish tinged with buff becoming pale grey on the 
fore-neck ; breast pale rust-colour ; abdomen and under tail-coverts cream-white ; 
flanks and sides of abdomen white with dark lead-colour bases and chestnut tips to 
the feathers; thighs dusky; axillaries white; under wing-coverts buffy-white 
minutely spotted with pale grey ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with 
buffy-white margins ; lower aspect of tail blackish-brown with white tips to the 
lateral feathers. Eyes white, feet black, bill leaden-blue. Collected at Wantna 
Pilla Swamp, Central Australia, on the 21st of August, 1914. 
Immature male. Crown of head pale dusky-brown with minute dark centres to 
the feathers, becoming darker and inclining to blackish towards the base of the 
fore-head and region of the eye ; lores cinnamon-buff ; liind-neck and sides of neck 
similar to the crown but more uniform ; back, scapulars and rump dull chestnut; 
outer aspect of wings pale earth-brown ; bastard-wing and inner webs of flight- 
quills dark hair-brown; upper tail-coverts and base of tail earth-brown, terminal 
portion of tail-feathers blackish, with more or less white at the tips ; base of fore-head 
and lores cinnamon-buff; chin and throat cream-white with dark bases to the 
feathers; upper breast and sides of breast cinnamon, some of the feathers of the 
upper breast showing black tips; lower breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 
cream-white, sides of body silky-white with chestnut markings to the feathers ; 
under wing-coverts white ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown, with pale 
buff margins ; lower aspect of tail blackish with white tips to the feathers. Eyes 
white, feet leaden-blue, bill leaden-black. Collected at Indulkana Creek, Central 
Australia, on the 22nd of August, 1914. Some of these birds have indications of 
a black band bordering the lower edge of the buff or cinnamon band. Compare 
the top figure of plate 494. 
Nest and eggs not described. 
Gould described this new species as from Port Augusta, South Australia, 
received from Waterhouse, and it was never re-found or recognised until 
Captain S. A. White re-discovered it. 
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