THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Myzomela sanguineolenta sanguineolenta Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 395 , 1912 . 
id., List Birds Austr., p. 263, 1913; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 330, 1914. 
Myzomela sanguineolenta stephensi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 395, Jan. 3lst, 
1912: Cooktown, North Queensland; id., List Birds Austr., p. 263, 1913. 
Distribution. Eastern Australia from Cape York to Victoria. 
Advlt male. Entire top of head, nape, sides of face, chin, throat and breast bright scarlet- 
red ; eye-ring and narrow loral-streak black; mantle, back, scapulars, rump and 
upper tail-coverts black with scarlet-red tips to many of the feathers; upper wing, 
coverts and innermost secondaries black with whitish edgings to some of the greater 
coverts; fligbt-quills blackish-brown with whitish margins on the inner webs: 
tail also blackish-brown; axillaries and sides of bod}’ ash-grey like the thighs; 
under tail-coverts greyish-brown broadly margined with buffy-white; under 
wing-coverts and margins of flight-quills below white; remainder of quill-lining 
hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar ; bill black, eyes and feet brown. Total 
length 110 mm. ; culmen 14, wing 60, tail 36, tarsus 15. Figured. Collected 
at Cooktown, North Queensland, on the 16th of May, 1900, and is the type of .1/. 
8. stephensi. 
Adv.lt female. General colour of the upper-surface rust-brown, including the top of the 
head, sides of crown, sides of neck, hind-neck, entire back, scapulars, rump and 
upper tail-coverts ; outer aspect of wings similar with pale edges to the greater 
wing-coverts ; flight-quills blackish-brown with whitish margins ; tail dark brown; 
under-surface of body ash-grey with dark bases to the feathers on the throat; 
axillaries, under -wing-coverts and margins of flight-quills below white, remainder 
of quill-lining dark brown ; lower aspect of tail similar but paler; bill black, eyes 
and feet brown. Total length 95 mm. ; culmen II, wing 55, tail 33, tarsus 17. 
Figured. Collected at Kuranda on the 10th of September, 1913. 
Adult male. Entire head and neck all round vermilion-red, like the centre of the back, 
from the hind-neck to the upper tail-coverts ; scapulars and wings black, the outer 
webs of the greater upper w r ing-coverts and flight-quills fringed with grey with a 
tinge of green on the latter; tail black, somewhat paler on the lateral feathers, 
some of which are edged with white at the tips ; lores and eye-ring black; breast 
grey with red tips to the feathers ; sides of body, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 
grey with a yellowish tinge ; thighs soot-black ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 
dull white ; under-surface of flight-quills greyish-brown with white margins; lower 
aspect of tail dark hair-brown. Total length 105 mm.; culmen 12, wing 60, 
tail 38, tarsus 15. Collected on Toongabbie, New South Wales, in October, 1896. 
Young males. “ Resemble the adult females, but have the rump and upper tail-coverts 
oclireous-fulvous, the scarlet feathers first appearing about the chin and sides of 
the head and down the contre of the back, the black feathers on the sides of the 
latter appearing at the same time. When the entire head and neck all round 
is scarlet, there is only indications of the scarlet tips to the feathers of the fore¬ 
neck and breast.” (North.) 
Immature female. Crown of head and nape duskv-groy with red feathors interspersed; 
sides of face, chin, and throat similar, but the base of feathers paler than the top 
of the head and the red more uniform ; mantle and back dusky-brown with a few 
red and blackish feathers intermixed; rump almost uniform red; upper tail- 
coverts blackish, some of which are tipped with white; upper wing-coverts black 
with pale margins to some of the median and greater series; bastard-wing and 
primary-coverts pale brown; flight-quills blackish-brown narrowly margined 
with olive-grey on the outer webs and fringed -with white on the inner ones; tail 
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