THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Soc. South Australia, Vol. XLI., p. 463, 1917 ; Howe, Emu, Vol. XXL, p. 40,1921 
(Review); Mathew r s, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pts. 2-3, p. 36, 1923. 
Neochmia (sic) picumna australis S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 23, 1919. 
Climacteris picumnus loaitei Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pts 2-3, p. 36, 1923. 
Distribution. South Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and adjoining parts of 
South Australia, (?) Tasmania. 
Adult male. Top of head, nape, and hind-neck dark lead-grey ; back and wings sepia- 
brown ; bastard-wing hair-brown with pale edging like the margin of the wing and 
first and second primary-quills; flight-quills also hair-brown, darker and inchning 
to black on the subterminal portion of the secondaries, some of which are dral> 
grey at the tips, a wide band of buff across the quills which becomes brighter on the 
secondaries ; upper tail-coverts and tail similar to the back with a broad subter¬ 
minal band of black on the latter; lores, superciliary streak, sides of crown, sides 
of face, chin, and throat pale bufi ; fore-neck grey tinged with buff; breast, 
abdomen, and sides of body streaked with white and more narrowly with dark 
brown, the streaks fading away on the lower abdomen and vent; thighs dusky; 
under tail-coverts white, or buffy-white marked with black ; axillaries and under 
wing-coverts buff ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with a patch of pale 
buff ; lower aspect of tail blackish tipped with grey. Total length 170 mm.; culrnen 
15, wing 98, tail 69, tarsus 25. Figured. Collected at Parramatta, New South 
Wales, in July 1904. (Bottom figure.) 
Adult female . General colour of the upper-surface including the mantle, back, rump, 
upper tail-coverts, scapulars and upper wing-coverts rust-brown; bastard-wing 
dark brown with pale outer margin; short outer primary similar but paler; primary- 
coverts and flight-quills blackish-brown with a wide band of buff across the latter, 
tips of secondaries drab-grey ; base of tail, tips and middle feathers similar to the 
back wdtli a broad black subterminal band ; top of head and nape greyish-brown; 
base of fore-head, lores and superciliary streak buff, becoming paler on the sides of 
the hinder-crown; sides of face, chin, and throat pale sandy-buff with pale shaft 
lines on the ear-coverts ; the feathers on the middle of the lower throat fringed 
with chestnut; fore-neck and sides of neck drab-grey ; breast also drab-grey tinged 
with fawn-colour and longitudinally streaked with blackish, the fawn-colour 
becoming much more pronounced on the abdomen, sides of body, and vent; thighs 
dusky-grey ; under tail-coverts fawn-colour or whitish with dark brown bars or 
twin spots ; axillaries and under wing-coverts buff ; under-surface of flight-quills 
greyish at the base and hair-brown with a buffy-white patch for the remainder; 
lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but paler. Total length 160 mm.; 
culrnen 13, wing 97, tail 65, tarsus 23. Figured. Collected at Blacktown, New 
South Wales, on the 16th of July, 1905. 
Adult 'tnale . Top of head, including fore-head and nape, dusky greyish-brown; mantle, 
back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, and upper wing-coverts coffee-brown; 
primary-coverts blackish like the basal portion of some of the outer flight-quills, 
which are paler at the tips and banded with orange-buff ; secondaries similar but 
darker on the subterminal portion of the feathers ; tail blackish, the middle feathers 
bronze-brown, as are also the tips of the lateral ones ; a wide grey streak on the 
sides of the hinder-crown ; sides of face dark brown with pale shaft-streaks; lores 
dusky tinged with buff ; throat pale buff with hair-like tips to the feathers on the 
chin ; upper breast, sides of neck, and sides of breast drab-groy, very slightly 
tinged with buff ; lower breast, abdomen, and sides of body whitish, longitudinally 
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