Order PASSERIFORMES. Family SITT1DJE. 
No. 614. 
NEOSITTELLA STRIATA. 
STRIATED TREERUNNER. 
(Plate 497.) 
Sittella striata Gould, Birds Austr., Suppl., pt. v., Aug. 1st, 1869 : Cape York, 
Queensland. 
Sittella striata Gould, Birds Austr., Suppl., pi. 54 (pt. v.), Aug. 1st, 1869; id., Ann. Mag. 
Nat. Hist., Ser. IV., Vol. IV.,p. 110, Aug. 1st, 1869; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 
1875, p. 599, 1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 192, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 364, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 
1888; Le Souef, Ibis, 1896, p. 314 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 36, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 343, 1901 ; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. II., p. 91, 
1902 (N.Q.); Berney, ib., Vol. V., p. 75, 1905 ; A. J. Campbell, ib., Vol. VI., p. 15, 
1906 ; A. G. Campbell, ib., p. 181, 1907 ; Berney, ib., Vol. VII., p. 81, 1907 ; Broad- 
bent, ib., Vol. X., p. 239, 1910. 
Neositta striata Hellmayr, Has Tierr., 18, p. 198, 1903; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austr., 
p. 88, 1908; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 28, 1911 ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., 
p. 175, 1914; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 29, 1917; Macgillivray, 
ib., p. 203, 1918. 
Neositta magnirostris Ingram, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXI., p. 99, May 30th, 1908 : 
Inkerman, Queensland; id., Ibis, 1908, p. 473, pi. ix. 
Neositta striata striata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 381, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Neositta striata rothschildi Mathews, ib. : Cairns, Queensland; id., South Austr. Orn., 
Vol. 2, pt. 3, p. 58, 1915. 
Neositta striata magnirostris Mathews, ib. 
Neosittella striata striata Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 249, 1913. 
Neosittella striata rothschildi Mathews, ib. 
Neosittella striata magnirostris Mathews, ib., p. 250. 
Distribution. Queensland only, from Cape York south-wards to Inkerman. 
Adult male. Crown of head and nape black ; lores and fore-liead whitish ; back and 
scapulars smoke-grey with narrow blackish shaft-lines ; upper tail-coverts white ; 
upper wing-coverts blackish-brown with pale minute tips to the lesser and median 
series and pale fringes on the greater ones ; flight-quills blackish-brown with pale 
tips and a band of white across the inner-webs and on the outer ones of some of 
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