THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Emu, VoL X., p. 312, 1911 ; Ashby, ih., VoL XX., p. 136, 1920 (W.A.); Alexander, 
ih.y p. 167. 
Mdiphaga govldii Sclilegel, De Dierentuin, p. 125, 1872 : new name for M, mystacalis 
Gould, not Temminck. 
Mdicn^is nigra dulciei Mathews, Bull. Brit. Omith. Club, Vol, XXVII., p. 96, May 26th, 
1911 : Albany, South-west Australia ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. X\Tn., p. 416, Jan. 
31st, 1912. 
Mdiornis nigra nigra Mathews, ih,, p. 415. 
Meliornis nigra herhertoni Mathews, ih. : Herberton Range, Queensland ; id.. South Austr. 
Om., Vol. 2, p. 60, 1915. 
Meliornis nigra inexpectata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 416, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Stirling Ranges, West Australia. 
Meliornis niger niger Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 284, 1913. 
Mdiornis niger herhertoni Mathews, ib., p. 285. 
Meliornis niger dtdciei Mathews, ih. 
Mdiornis niger inexpectatns Mathews, ib. 
Purndlornis niger niger Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 5, p. 112, 1914. 
Purnellomis niger herhertoni Mathews, ih. 
PnrneUornis niger dulciei Mathews, ih. 
Purndlornis niger inexpectatns Mathews, ib. 
Purndlornis niger gotddii Miithews, ib., Vol. III., pt. 5, p. 127, Dec. 28th, 1917. 
Meliornis niger gouldii Mathews, ib. 
Mdiornis herhertoni Campbell and Barnard, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 34, 1917 (N.Q.). 
Distribution. Eastern Australia from the Herberton Range, North Queensland, tlirough 
Victoria and South Australia to South-west Australia as far north as the Perth 
district. 
Adult rtmle. Feathers of the top of the head black, bordered on the sides by a broad band 
of white forming a supercilium; sides of the head black, back of the neck and mantle 
black, each feather widely margined with white ; lower back, rump and upper tail- 
coverts olive-brown, with a mesial streak of blackisli-brown; tail blackish-brown 
widely margined on the basal two-thirds of the outer web with bright greenish- 
3 ’^eilow; innermost secondaries uniform ash-brown; primaries and outermost 
f econdaries ash-brown, widely margined on the outer web with bright greenish- 
yellow ; chin, throat and fore-neck intense black; cheeks ornamented with long 
white plumes, forming whiskers ; chest, remainder of the under-parts white, heavily 
streaked with black; middle of the belly white ; under-surface of wing ash-brown, 
with the inner webs isabelline. Eyes dark brown, feet and bill black. Total length 
180 mm. ; culmen 25, wing 75, tail 74, tarsus 23. Figured. Collected at Mt. 
Donelly’’, Stirling Ranges, South-west Australia, on the 14th of October, 1910, and 
is the t 3 "pe of M. n. inexpectata. 
The sexes are alike. 
Adult male. Lores, lop of the head and feathers round the e 3 ’e intense black ; feathers 
at the base of the fore-head and over the eye white with black bases and middles; 
feathers at the base of the neck and on the mantle dull black, each feat her ma rgined 
on the sides with white, producing a streaked appearance; rump and upper tail- 
covorts brownish-olivio with blackish centres; tail-feathers blackish-brown, 
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