THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
p. 31, 1913 (S.A.) ; Agnew, ib., p. 96 (Q.) ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 175, 1914 (N.Q.); 
Barnard, ib, Vol. XIV., p. 48, 1914 (N.T.); Barrett, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 175, 
pi. xvi., 1915 (Vic.) ; Lawrence and Littlejohns, ib ., Vol. XV., p. 166, pi. xxv., 1916; 
H. L. White, ib ., Vol. XVI., p. 226, 1917 (N.T.) ; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. 
XVII., p. 30, 1917 (N.Q.); Macgillivray, ib., p. 203, 1908 (N.Q.); Kersey, ib., Vol. 
XIX., p. 52, 1919 (Q.); Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. XX., p. 90, 1920 
(N.S.W.) ; Alexander, ib., p. 167, 1921 (W.A.); Whitlock, ib., p. 186 (W.A.). 
Dicceum hirundinaceum hirundinaceum Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 386, Jan. 31st, 
1912 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 318, 1914. 
Dicceum hirundina.ceum yorki Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 387 : Cape York, 
Queensland ; id., Austral Av. Bee., Vol. I., p. 61, 1912. 
Dicceum hirundinaceum tormenti Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 387 : Point Torment, 
North-west Australia. 
Austrodicceum hirundinaceum hirundinaceum Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 254, 1913; 
S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 190, 1915 (Central Australia); Carter, Ibis, 1917, 
p. 608. 
Austrodicceum hirundinaceum tormenti Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 255, 1913. 
Distribution. Throughout Australia even to Cape York, but not Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface glossy steel-blue including the top of the 
head, sides of face, hind-neck, sides of neck, back, wings and tail; inner-webs of 
flight-quills blackish-brown; chin, tlnoat and upper breast scarlet-red like the 
short under tail-coverts, the long ones pink; middle of abdomen blackish, skirted 
on each side with whitish ; sides of body, flanks, and axillaries dusky-grey ; thighs 
dusky ; under-edge of wing blackish ; under wing-coverts white; under-surface 
of flight-quills hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface. Eyes 
brown, bill leaden-black, feet and tarsi blackish-brown. Total length 103 mm.; 
culrnen 8, wing 64, tail 31, tarsus 12. Figured. Collected at Point Torment, 
King's Sound, West Kimberley, North-west Australia, on the 3rd of April, 1911, 
and is the type of D. h. Tormenti. 
Adidt female. General colour of the upper-surface dusky-brown with gloss}* steel-blue 
on many of the feathers on the back and wings ; inner-webs of flight-quills blackish- 
brown with pale margins ; upper tail-coverts and tail glossy steel-blue; sides of 
face dusky-brown becoming greyish-white on the cheeks ; a dark moustachial 
streak on each side of the throat; chin, throat, and upper breast white with an 
indication of grey spots on the last; sides of neck, sides of breast, and middle of 
abdomen dusky-brown ; flanks and thighs cream-white ; axillaries and under wing- 
coverts white ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown margined with white; 
under tail-coverts reddish-pink becoming much paler on the long ones; lower 
aspect of tail blackish-browm. Eyes brown, feet and tarsi leaden-black. Bill 
leaden-blue, lower mandible greyish. Total length 88 mm. ; culrnen 8, wing 60, 
tail 25, tarsus 13. Figured. Collected at Point Torment, King’s Sound, West 
Kimberley, North-west Australia, on the 14th of February, 1911. 
Eggs. Three eggs usually form the clutch. A clutch of three taken at Manly, Now South 
Wales, on the 24th of November, 1893, is of a pure white. Long ovals in shape; 
surface of shell very smooth, and almost devoid of gloss. 17-18 mm. by 11. 
A set of three eggs taken at Borroloola, Macarthur River, Northern Territory, oil 
the 11th of January, 1914, measures as follows : 15-16 mm. by 10-11. 
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