Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 610. 
Family SITTID/E. 
NEOSITTA LEUCOCEPHALA. 
WHITE-HEADED TREERUNNER. 
(Plate 496, top left-hand figure.) 
Sittella LEUCOCEPHALA Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (68), April 1st, 1838: 
Moreton Bay, Queensland. 
Sittella leueocephala Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. rv\, pi. (68), April 1st, 1838; id., 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 152, Dec. 1838; id., Birds Austr., pt. xxx. (Vol. 
IV., pi. 102), March 1st, 1848; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 610, 1865; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 192, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. Vin., p. 361, 1883; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888; Hall, 
Birds Austr., p. 36, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 339, 
1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 57, 1906; A. G. Campbell, 
Emu, Vol. VT., p. 181, 1907. 
Neositta leueocephala Hellmayr, Das Tierr., 18, p. 198, 1903; Mathews, Hand! Birds 
Austral., p. 88, 1908 ; Ramsay, Emu, Vol. XIX., p. 5, 1919 (N.S.W.). 
Neositta leueocephala leueocephala Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 379, 1912; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 248, 1913. 
Neositta leucoptera (sic) lumholtzi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 61, April 
7th, 1916 : Queensland (North ?). 
Distribution : Queensland (Moreton Bay District) and Northern New South Wales 
(Clarence River). 
Adult. Top of head and sides of face greyish-white with a slight indication of dark shaft¬ 
lines on the crown and nape ; sides of neck, mantle, back, and rump dark brown 
with drab-grey margins to the feathers; upper tail-coverts white with a blackish 
subapical mark on many of the feathers; upper wing-coverts and flight-quills 
blackish-brown with pale edgings to some of the feathers and a chestnut band across 
the inner webs of the latter ; tail also blackish-brown with smoke-white tips 
to the feathers ; throat whitish ; breast, abdomen, and sides of body greyish-white 
with dark shaft-streaks becoming darker and inclining to drab-grey on the lower 
flanks ; under tail-coverts black fringed with white, more broadly at the tips; 
axillaries dusky-grey ; under wing-coverts dark brown, greater series white; under¬ 
surface of flight-quills dark brown with a patch of chestnut; lower aspect of tail 
similar to its upper-surface. Eyes and feet yellow. Bill black. Total length 
101 mm. ; culrnen 10, wing 79, tail 35, tarsus 16. Figured. Collected in Queensland 
and is the type of N. 1. lumholtzi. The sexes are alike. 
Adult. Fore-part of head whitish-grey with minute dark shaft-lines, becoming darker on 
the nape, sides of face, and sides of neck ; back, rump, and scapulars dark brown 
with somewhat paler margins to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts white with a 
black subapical mark on some of the feathers ; upper wing-coverts and flight-quills 
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