Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 607. 
Family SPHENOSTOMIDE, 
APHELOCEPHALA NIGRICINCTA. 
BLACK-BANDED WHITEFACE. 
(Plate 494.) 
Xerophtla NiGRicmcTA North, Ibis, 1895, p. 340, July 1st: Missionary Plain, Central 
Australia. 
Xerophila nigricincta North, Ibis, 1895, p. 340 ; id., Rep. Horn Sci. Exped. Zool., VoL II., 
p. 82, pi. 7, 1896 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 30, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 289, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., 
p. 294, 1904. 
Aphelocephala nigricincta Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1899, p. 214; Mathews, 
Hand!. Birds Austral., p. 87, 1908; id., Emu, Vol. X., p. 303, 1911 (N.T.); S. A. 
White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 99, 1914; id., Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., 
Vol. XXXVIII., p. 434, 1914; id., ib., Vol. XXXIX., p. 756, 1915; id., ib., Vol 
XLI., p. 462, 1917 ; McGilp, South Austr. Orn., Vol. V., pt. 4, p. 98, 1920; id., 
Emu, Vol. XXI., p. 49, 1921 ; id., ib., Vol. XXII., p. 285, 1923. 
Aphelocephala nigricincta nigricincta Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 378, 1912; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 247, 1913; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 190, 1915. 
Aphelocephala nigricincta tanami Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 378, Jan. 31st, 
1912 : Tanami, Northern Territory ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 247, 1913. 
Aphelocephala pectoralis nigricincta Mathews, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 35, 1916. 
Aphelocephala pectoralis tanami Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Central Australia from Strzeleck Creek in south to Tanami in north. 
Adult male. Crown of the head, fore-head, lores, sides of neck and hind-neck cinnamon- 
rufous ; back and scapulars similar but darker and inclining to pale chestnut ; 
upper wing-coverts earth-brown with pale margins ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 
and flight-quills hair-brown with pale edges to the feathers, becoming darker on the 
inner secondaries with cinnamon-rufous margins ; tail-feathers pale brown at 
the base becoming wliitish towards the tips, which are partially white; a line 
across the fore-head, which is continued through the eye to the ear-coverts dark 
brown ; throat and upper breast cream-white with a tinge of cinnamon on the 
chin ; sides of breast similar to the sides of the neck ; a black band across the 
lower breast; abdomen, sides of body, and flanks cream-white with pale chestnut 
markings to the feathers ; thighs and under tail-coverts pale buff; under wing- 
coverts cinnamon-buff ; remainder of quill-lining pale hair-brown; lower aspect 
of tail similar to its upper-surface. Eyes white, feet slatey-black, bill black. Collected 
25 miles west of Todmorden, Central Australia, on the 25th of August, 1914. 
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