THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Manorhina garrula Gray, Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 190, 1843; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 260, 1884; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 
1886, p. 240, 1887; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 44, 1899; Littler, Emu, Vol. III., 
p. 216, 1904 (Tas.) ; A. G. Campbell, ib., Vol. IV., pp. 113-123, 1905 (Tas.); 
Hill, ib., Vol. VII., p. 19, 1907 (Vic.); Austin, ib., p. 30 (N.S.W.); Ingle, A, 
Vol. X., p. 126, 1910. 
Myzantha mdanocephala melanocephala Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 416, 1912; 
id.. List Birds Austr., p. 286, 1913. 
Myzantha mdanocephala whitei Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 417, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
South Australia ; id., Austr. Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 62 (Eggs); id.. List Birds Austr., 
p. 286, 1913; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 349, 1914. 
Myzantha mdanocephala leachi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 417, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Tasmania ; id.. Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 62, 1912 (Eggs); id.. List Birds Austr., 
p. 286, 1913. 
Myzantha mdanocephala crassirostris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 417, Jan. 31st, 
1912 : Cairns, Queensland ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 286, 1913. 
Distribution. Eastern Australia from Cairns, North Queensland, to South Australia; 
Tasmania. 
AduU. Lores and feathers at base of bill hoary-grey ; crown dull black, back of the head 
and. neck ash-grey margined with wliitish-grey ; upper mantle brownish-grey 
with an indistinct spot of dull black ; lower mantle similar, but washed with 
yellowish-olive ; lower back, rmnp and upper tail-coverts grey tinged with light 
buff; middle pair of tail-featheis leaden-grey, hghter at the tip but with the shaft 
and middle portion next the shaft black; outer tail-feathers dull brownish-black, 
with the tenninal portion greyish-white ; wing-coverts and innermost secondaries 
leaden-grey with the inner web blackish; outermost primaries blackish-brown, 
margined on the outer web at the tip and on the imier web vith white; iimer 
primaries and outermost secondaries brownish-ash with the outer web dull olive- 
green ; cheeks and sides of the tkroat black ; base of the lower mandible light 
yellowish-olive ; tliroat, chest and breast greyish-white tipped with wliite and 
with a penultimate bar of black across each feather ; abdomen and under tail- 
coverts white, axUlaries and under wing-coverts smoke-grey. Bill and legs yellow. 
Eyes brow'll. Total length 268 mm.; culmen 19, wing 130, tail 111, tarsus 34. 
Figured. Collected in Tasmania and is the type of M. m. leachi. 
The sexes are alike. 
AdvU male. Feathers of fore-head and lores w'hite; top and sides of the head black; 
hind-neck dark grey, each feather margined w'ith white, producing a barred 
appearance; mantle and back dark gi’ey, faintly washed with green, middle of 
each feather darker; rump and upper tad-coverts uniform ash-grey ; central 
tail-feathers grey, whitisli at the tip and with dark blackish-brown shafts ; outer 
tail-feathers dull brownish-black, very widely tipped at the extremity with greyish- 
white ; outer primaries blackisli-brow'ii, widely margined on the inner web and 
narrowly on the outer web, at the tip, w'ith white ; imier primaries and outemu^t 
secondaries margined on the outer web w'ith greenish-olive ; imiermost secondaries 
like the back; cheeks wliitish, margined beliind with black; chin pale j'ellow, 
lower throat white; chest and upper-breast isabelline-grey, tipped with whitish- 
grey and submarginally' barred with brown; lower-breast faintly marked with 
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