THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
dark chestnut; lower breast, abdomen, sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts 
pale chestnut; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and margins of flight-quills below 
white ; remainder of quill-lining dark brown ; lower aspect of tail like the upper- 
surface but the dark pattern paler. Wing 67 mm. Collected on Kangaroo Island 
in July 1911. 
Adult male. Top of head and nape glossy black with metallic margins to the feathers, 
which imparts a scalloped appearance ; lores, sides of face, and an irregular line 
down the sides of the neck, which expands out on the sides of the breast, black; 
hind-neck chestnut-brown; back coffee-brown; rump and upper tail-coverts, 
scapular's, upper wing-coverts, and innermost secondaries dark slate-grey; bend 
of wing, bastard-wing, and primary-caverts black; flight-quill3 blackish-brown 
margined with white on the inner webs ; tail also blackish-brown at the base and 
middle feathers, the lateral feathers white on the inner webs of the apical portion; 
chin, cheeks, a wide band across the fore-neck, and centre of breast white ; a band 
of dark chestnut across the throat ; breast, abdomen, sides of body, thighs, and 
under tail-coverts pale chestnut, axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner-margins 
of flight-quills below white, remainder of quill-lining hair-brown: low r er aspect 
of tail blackish with white tips to the lateral feathers. Wing 65 mm. Eyes dark 
reddish, bill black with lighter tip ; legs dark grey. Collected on Mt. Lofty, near 
Adelaide, South Australia, on the 17th of May, 1910, and is the type of A. t. loftyi. 
Immature male. Top of head, lores, and sides of face blackish-brown; hind-neck, sides 
of neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts dark 
smoke-brown; flight-quills blackish margined with white on the inner webs ; tail 
blackish at the base and on the middle feathers and white on the apical portion 
of the two outermost ones on each side ; chin and throat pale tawny, becoming 
darker on the breast; abdomen, sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts 
cinnamon-chestnut; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner margins of quills 
below white, remainder of quill-lining dark brown ; low T er aspect of tail similar 
in colour and pattern to its upper-surface. Bill black, lower base orange, gape 
yellow, mouth orange, eyes brown, feet dark slate. Collected at The Basin, 
Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, on the 1st of January, 1909. 
Young. Crown, lores, and sides of face dark brown; sides of neck and hind-neck pale 
chestnut, becoming fulvous-brown on the mantle and upper back; rump, upper 
tail-coverts, and outer aspect of wings dark grejish-browm ; flight-quills dark 
brown, slightly paler on the outer edges of some of the feathers and more broadly 
margined with w r hite on the inner webs ; tail blackish, the two outermost on each 
side wiiite on the terminal third of the feathers ; chin, cheeks, and middle of breast 
cream-wiiite with a patch of burnt umber on the throat; an irregular black band 
on the sides of the breast wliich joins on the centre ; abdomen, sides of body, thighs, 
and under tail-coverts bright fulvous ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and margins 
of flight-quills below r white ; remainder of quill-lining dark brown; lower aspect 
of tail similar to its upper-surface. Collected at Mt. Lofty, South Australia, on 
the 26th of May, 1897. 
Just after leaving nest. General colour of the upper-surface dark dusky browrn, including 
the top of the head, sides of face, hind-neck, sides of neck, back, rump, upper tail- 
coverts, and upper wing-coverts ; flight-quills blackish with pale edgings to the 
outer webs and margined with white on the inner ones ; tail also blackish, white 
for the greater portion of the terminal half of the two most lateral feathers on each 
side ; under-surfaco of body tawny, duller on the chin, throat, and cheeks, and 
brighter on the breast, abdomen, sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts; 
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