BLACK-CAPPED TREERUNNER. 
Hand!, Band 52, p. 99, 1918 ; Asliby, Emu, Vol. XX., p. 135, 1921 (W.A.) ; 
Alexander, ib., p. 167 (W.A.). 
Neositta tenuirostris Hellmayr, Das Tierr., 18, p. 197, 1903; Mathews, HandL Birds 
Austral., p. 88, 1908. 
Neositta pileata pileata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 379, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 248, 1913. 
Neositta pileata teunuirostris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 380, 1912 ; id ., List 
Birds Austr., p. 249, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 190, 1915. 
Neositta pileata milligani Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 380, Jan. 31st, 1912 : East 
Murchison, Mid-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 248, 1913. 
Neositta pileata broomi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 380, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Broome 
Hill, South-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 248, 1913. 
Neositta pileata whiilocki Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 47, April 2nd, 1912 : 
Stirling Ranges, South-west Australia ; id. , List Birds Austr., p. 248, 1913. 
Distribution. South and Mid-west Australia and Central and South Australia. 
Adult male. Crown of head and nape black; fore-head buffy-white ; lores and sides 
of face white, slightly tinged with drab-grey on the ear-coverts and sides of neck, 
somewhat deeper in colour on the latter ; back, scapulars, and rump grevish-brow r n 
with dark shaft-streaks ; upper wing-coverts black; flight-quills also black, with 
whitish tips to some of the primaries and broadly banded with bright cinnamon 
on both primaries and secondaries ; upper tail-coverts white, the middle ones 
inclining to buff marked with black ; tail black tipped with white, which increases 
in extent towards the outermost; throat, breast, and abdomen white ; sides of 
body drab-grey ; thighs coffee-brown ; under tail-coverts white, or greyish-white 
subapically marked with black; under wing-coverts black, the greater series and 
edge of wing white ; under-surface of flight-quills black with a patch of cinnamon ; 
lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface. Eyes brown, feet yellow, bill with 
yellow base, shading to a dark brown tip. Total length 118 mm. ; culmen 15, 
wing 87, tail 38, tarsus 16. Figured. Collected at Wilson’s Inlet, South-west 
Australia, on the 10th of May, 1910. 
Adult female. Top of head, nape, and sides of face deep black; liind-neck, back, and 
scapulars greyish-brown with dark shaft-streaks; upper wing-coverts black; 
flight-quills biackish-brown with a cinnamon band across the inner-webs ; upper 
tail-coverts white, the long ones more or less marked with grey ; tail black, tipped 
with white—more extensively on the outermost feathers ; chin black with hair¬ 
like tips to the feathers ; throat, breast, and abdomen white; sides of body drab- 
grey ; thighs coffee-brown ; under tail-coverts wiiite w T ith a subapical mark of 
black ; under wing-coverts black, the greater series and edge of wing white; under¬ 
surface of flight-quills blackish with a patch of cinnamon; lower aspect of tail 
similar to its upper-surface. Eyes red-orange, orbits yellow ; feet and legs chrome- 
yellow 7 ; bill with yellow base and purple tip. Figured. Collected at Broome 
Hill, South-w r est Australia, on the 24th of September, 1905, and is the type of N . p. 
broomi. 
The female differs from the male in having the black of the head extending below the eyes. 
Eggs. Three eggs usually form the clutch. A clutch of three taken at Keivell, near Murtoa, 
Victoria, on the 27th of September, 1894, is of a pale greyish-white ground-colour, 
heavily spotted and blotched, particularly at the larger end of each egg, with dark 
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