LITTLE WHITE-THROATED TREECREEPER, 
cheeks, and throat whitish ; fore-neck, sides of neck, and upper breast dusky- 
grey ; sides of body dark grey with white elongated centres to the feathers, which 
are fringed with black ; lower breast and abdomen buff with dark brown markings 
to the feathers ; under tail-coverts buff or buffy-white with blackish cross-bars 
like the axillaries ; under wing-coverts similar but more coarsely marked ; under¬ 
surface of flight-quills dark brown, irregularly marked with pale buff ; lower aspect 
of tail similar to its upper-surface but paler. Eyes dark brown, feet blackish-brown, 
upper mandible black, lower brownish-black. Total length 135 mm. ; culinen 13, 
wing 76, tail 57, tarsus 23. Collected at Kuranda, North Queensland, on the 
26th of November, 1912. 
Immature female. Crown of head dark brown, including the fore-head and nape, with pale 
margins to the feathers ; hind-neck, sides of neck, back, rump, scapulars, and 
upper wing-coverts olive-brown with obscure dark browm bars and mottlings to 
the feathers ; bastard-wing, outer greater-coverts, and primary-coverts blackish 
like the base of the primaries and the subterminal portion of the secondaries, the 
tips of the last inclining to bronze-green, tips of primaries somewhat paler than 
at the base; a bronze-yellow band across the quills which becomes brighter on 
the inner-webs ; upper tail-coverts rather paler than the back with two or three 
small chestnut feathers intermixed ; tail dark grey with a wide subterminal band 
of black; lores dull whitish ; sides of the face dusky-brown with pale streaks to 
the ear-coverts; a pale buff line below the ear-coverts ; chin and throat greyish- 
buff becoming darker on the fore-neck ; breast dark drab-grey with dark browm 
spots; abdomen similar but more coarsely marked and strongly tinged with 
ochreous-bulf ; sides of body dark browm streaked with bufiEy-white ; under tail- 
coverts buff marked with twin spots of dark brown ; axillaries and under wing- 
coverts bufl intermixed with dark brown ; under-surface of flight-quills dark brown 
with a patch of buff towards the base ; lower aspect of tail blackish, becoming dark 
grey at the tip. Eyes dark brown, bill and feet brownish. Collected at Kuranda, 
near Cairns, North Queensland, on the 11th of December, 1912. (Lower left figure.) 
Nest. Consisted of green moss and soft bark to a depth of six inches, placed in a hollow 
of a small tree in scrub ; eggs in small depression on top of the moss. 
Eggs. Clutch two, swollen oval in shape, surface of shell very fine and almost devoid of 
gloss. Ground-colour very pale creamy-white, sparingly marked all over with 
minute spots and specks of reddish-brown and pale lilac. 21 mm. by 16. 
Breeding season. October. 
Gadow separated, some birds in the British Museum as a northern race, but did 
not name this as the birds were of doubtful locality, supposedly Queensland. 
In his Tabular List Austr. Birds, Ramsay in 1888 made a note, p. 35 ; 
“ Climacteris leucophoea. Specimens recently received from the Cairns District, 
Queensland, are of a smaller race than the southern forms, and in a second 
edition of that List issued in 1891 he named this form Climacteris leucophcea 
minor. Of course this naming was overlooked, and consequently Reichenow 
proposed a new species Climacteris weiskei from specimens collected by W eiske 
in North Queensland. 
Later the species was differentiated by the late Mr. A. J. North who 
wrote me: “I had fully described this smaller form and sent the description 
together with the type to Dr. Sclater, the former to be published in the Ibis 
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