CHESTNUT-BREASTED WHITEEACE. 
the case, because I am positive I skinned adult males and females and the 
young birds, and, strange to say, the younger the birds the more numerous 
the dark spots on the band. In 1913 during our Central Australian expedition 
we found A. nigricincta nesting in numbers, but never a sign of a bird with a 
chestnut band.” 
McGilp has now recorded : “I found five nests of the Black-banded 
Whiteface, but in every instance only two young were in the nests. Two 
young birds I have presented to the South Australian Museum; both show 
the adult plumage, and also have down-like feathers on the head.’ 
From the material sent over by Capt. S. A. White I w r ould have said 
that this and the next species were identical, but on his authority I am leaving 
them as distinct. 
Comparing the bird that I figure as A. p. todmordeni (pi. 494, right-hand 
figure) with Gould’s plate of his type, it will be seen that my bird has not so 
much white on the fore-head, the upper parts duller, and the flanks not so 
heavily marked, so we can admit 
Aphelocephala pectoralis pectoralis (Gould). 
Aphelocephala pectoralis todmordeni Mathews. 
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