THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Manorhina lutea Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 127, 1847 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus 
Vol. IX., p. 262, 1884; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 44, 1899; id., Emu, Vol. I 
p. 103, 1902 (N.W.A.). 
Myzantha flavigula flavigula Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 417, 1912; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 286, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 191, 1914 (Central 
Australia). 
Myzantha flarngvla herneyi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVtll., p. 417, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Richmond district, Queensland; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 287, 1913. 
Myzantha flavigula wayensis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 418, Jan. 3lBt, 1912; 
Lake Way, West Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 287, 1913. 
Myzantha flavigula lutea Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 418, 1912; id.. List Birds 
Austr., p. 287, 1913; id.. South Austr. Orn., Vol. 3, p. 225, 1918. 
Myzantha flavigula alligator Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 418, Jan. 3l8t, 1912; 
Alligator River, Northern Territory ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 287, 1913. 
Myzantha flavigula melvillensis Mathews, ib. : Melville Island, Northern Territory; id.. 
List Birds Austr., p. 287, 1913. 
Myzantha flavigula casuarina Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 100, Sept. 
18th, 1912 ; Mount Casuarina, North-west Australia ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 287, 
1913. 
Myzantha flavigula 'pallida Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 91, July 7th, 
1916 ; Tietkin’s Creek, Central Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally^, except South-west and MaUee country of South 
Australia and Victoria. 
Adult male. Feathers at the base of the cultpen and fore-head olive-yellow; top of the 
head, back of the neck, mantle, lower back, rump and wing-coverts brownish-grey 
with concealed whitish shafts; upper tail-coverts very long and wloite in colour; 
tail dull brown, broadly tipped with w'hite and marghied on the outer web with 
yellowish-olive; outermost primaries uniform drrll brown; inner primaries and 
outermost secondaries dull browm, widely margined on the outer web with yellowish- 
olive ; irmermost secondaries brown on the irmer web and brownish-grey on the 
outer web ; a large spot of black in front of and below the eye; ear-coverts black 
washed with hoar^^-gr’ey ; a line of orange-yellow feathers at the base of the lower 
mandible and a faint collar of pale lemon-yeUow across the upper chest; tluoat 
■w'hite; chest isabelline tipped with white and with a submarginal band of pale 
brown ; remainder of the undor-smiace white. Eyes browm, bill, feet and bare 
sldn yellow'. Total length 264 mm. ; culmen 18, wing 133, tail 111, tarsus 30. 
Figui-ed. Collected at Moree, New South Wales, in November, 1898. 
Adult female. Fore-head and feathers at the base of the upper mandible orange-yellow; 
back of the head, neck, mantle and lower back brownish-gx’ey, each feather margined 
with light grey; rump and upper tad-coverts pure wliite; tad-feathers greyish- 
brown, widely tipped with white and margined on the outer web with yellowish- 
olive ; wing-coverts like the back; outer primaries uniform browmish-ash; imier 
pi'imaries and outer secondaries brownish-ash with the outer w'eb golden olive- 
yellow ; irmermost secondaries lighter; lores and a narrow hne of feathers below' 
the eye black ; ear-coverts black edged with silvery-grey; a patch of golden-yellow 
feathers at the angle of the mouth; cliin yellow; tliroat white; a band of golden- 
yellow feathers across the upper chest; chest soiled white, each feather narrowly 
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