THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
with white ; tail bronze tinged with yellow ; chin, throat, cheeks, breast, abdomen, 
sides of body, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts white, very 
slightly tinged with, pale fawn on the breast; under-surface of flight-quills hair- 
brown fringed with white ; lower aspect of tail hair-brown. Eyes brown, orbits 
leaden-blue, feet and legs pale leaden-blue, bill black, lower base yellow. Collected 
on Melville Island, Northern Territory, on the 13th of October, 1911. 
Immature male. Crown of head and nape blackish-brown ; base of fore-head, lores, sides 
of face, and sides of neck black ; a short white line on the sides of the crown behind 
the eye ; mantle, scapulars, and back smoke-brown ; upper tail-coverts bronze- 
yellow ; upper wing-coverts similar to the back; outer aspect of flight-quills 
greenish-yellow, inner-webs hair-brown with whitish margins; tail hair-brown 
with greenish-yellow margins to the feathers on the outer-webs ; throat, breast, 
abdomen, sides of body, under tail-coverts, axillaries, under wing-coverts, and 
inner-margins of quills below white, remainder of quill-lining pale hair-brown; 
lower aspect of tail also pale hair-brown. Eyes brown, feet and legs leaden-grey, 
bill brown, lower base yellow. Collected on Melville Island, Northern Territory, 
on the 15th of June, 1912. 
Immature female. Crown of head and nape dark cinnamon blotched with black ; base of 
fore-head, sides of face, and sides of neck black; a line of white on the sides of 
the hinder-crown, which extends on to the hind-neck, where it becomes intermixed 
with black ; mantle, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and outer aspect of flight- 
quills yellowish-green ; upper wing-coverts, whicli are moulting, pale earth-brown; 
inner-webs of flight-quills hair-brown margined with white ; tail hair-brown fringed 
with yellowish-green on the outer-webs ; throat and remainder of the under-surface 
white, including the breast, abdomen, sides of body, under tail-coverts, under 
wing-coverts and inner-margins of flight-quills below, remainder of the quill-lining 
hair-brown as is also the lower aspect of the tail. Eyes brown, orbits leaden-grey, 
feet and legs leaden-brown, bill black, lower base yellow. Collected on Melville 
Island, Northern Territory, on the 2nd of October, 1911. 
Immature adult. Crown of head, nape, and hind-nock rust-brown more or less intermixed 
with black; sides of neck similar but uniform ; an indication of a white line on 
the sides of the hinder-crown which extends across the hind-neck; fore-head, 
lores, and sides of face black ; back, rump, and upper tail-covorts yellowish-green; 
lesser upper wing-coverts, bastard-wing, and base of primary-coverts blackish, 
fringed with yellowish-green at the tips of the last; the greater series and outer 
aspect of flight-quills like the back : base of some of the outer flight-quills whitish, 
the remaining portion blackish margined with white on the inner-webs ; tail-feathers 
hair-brown tinged with yellowish-green ; chin, throat, and upper breast white; 
lower breast, abdomen, sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts cream-white ; 
axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner margins of quills below white, remaining 
portion of the flight-quills below blackish-brown ; lower aspect of tail greyish- 
brown. Eyes brown, orbits bluish-grey, bill dark horn, lower base pale, legs and 
feet brown. Collected at Wilson’s Inlet, South-west Australia, on the 22nd of 
March, 1910. 
Immature female. Crown of head, nape, and sides of face dark cinnamon-brown varied 
with black on the fore-part of the head, base of fore-head, lores, and fore-part of face; 
a narrow white band on the hind-neck which is continued on to the sides of the 
hinder-crown ; mantle, back, rump, and scapulars moss-green; upper tail-coverts 
similar but rather paler ; lesser upper wing-coverts and bastard wing blackish- 
brown ; greater upper wing-coverts and outer aspect of flight-quills yellowish-green; 
inner-webs of the latter dark hair-brown edged with white ; tail hair-brown tinged 
with yellowish-green ; under-surface white, including the throat, breast, abdomen, 
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