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Order PASSERIFORMES. Family GLIM ACTERIDM. 
No. 619. 
CORMOBATES MINOR. 
LITTLE WHITE-THROATED TREECREEPER. 
(Plate 501.) 
Climacteris leucopilea minor Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, 2nd ed., Add., p. 2, June 
1st, 1891 : Bartle Frere, North Queensland. 
Climacteris leucophaca minor Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, 2nd ed., Add., p. 2, 1891; 
Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 383, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 250, 1913 ; 
Howe, Emu, Vol. XXI., p. 41, 1921 ; 
Climacteris leucophoea Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 599 ; id., Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 35, 1888 ; Sclater, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XV., p. 9, 1904; Broadbent, 
Emu, Vol. X., p. 239, 1910. 
Climacteris iveiskei Reichenow, Ornith. Monatsb., Vol. VIII., p. 187, Dec. 1900 : North 
Queensland=Bartle Frere ; Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XV., p. 10, 1904. 
Climacteris minor Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 89, 1908 ; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. 
XVI., p. 164, 1917 ; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 29, 1917 ; Campbell, 
ib., Vol. XXII., pi. lxxi. , 1923. 
Cormobates minor northi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pts 2-3, p. 36, Feb. 21st, 1923 : 
Barron River, North Queensland. 
Cormobates minor minor Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Queensland, Cairns district alone. 
Adult male. Top of head, including the fore-head and nape, black with pale margins to 
the feathers which impart a scalloped appearance ; Hind-neck, sides of neck, back, 
rump, scapulars, and lesser upper wing-coverts olive-green; bastard-wing, outer 
greater coverts, primary-coverts, and outer webs of primaries black; flight-quills 
dark brown becoming darker on the secondary-quills, with a bronze-yellow band 
across the quills chiefly on the inner-webs, tips of secondaries drab-grey; lores 
blackish minutely speckled with white and black hair-like tips to the feathers ; ear- 
coverts blackish with pale shaft-streaks ; chin and throat wliite ; fore-neck, sides 
of neck, and upper breast pale grey ; lower breast, abdomen, sides of body, 
and under tail-coverts ochreous-yellow with black lines, spots, or bars to the 
feathers; axillaries and under wing-coverts yellow r ; under-surface of flight-quills 
liair-brown with a patch of yellow ; lower aspect of tail blackish-brown tipped 
with grey. Bill horn, lower mandible lighter, eyes brown, feet brownish-black. 
Total length 140 mm. ; culmen 13, wing 80, tail 57, tarsus 21. Figured. Collected 
on the Barron River, near Cairns, North Queensland, on the 4th of July, 1910. 
Adult female. Crown of head, including fore-head and nape, black with pale margins to 
the feathers which impart a scalloped appearance ; hind-neck, back, rump, and 
scapulars olive-green ; upper wing-coverts blackish edged with olive-green including 
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