YELLOW-THROATED MINAH. 
and faintly margined with ^eyisli-brown; remainder of the under-snrface pure 
white. Eyes dull brown, bill bright gamboge-yellow and skin around eye and 
tract behind lower mandible the same colour, legs and feet yellow tinged with brown. 
Total length 230 mm. ; culmen IS, wing 122, tail 109, tai-sus 32. Pigxu'ed. 
Collected at Lake Way, East Murchison, Central Mid-west Australia, on the 19th 
of July, 1909, and is the type of Myzaniha flavigtda tvayensis. 
The sexes are alike. 
NesUirig, Top of head, hind-neck, back, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts dark fawn- 
grey ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills dark brown fringed with 
yellow on the outer webs except the five outer primaries which are slightly edged 
with wliite, more broadly at the tips; upj>er tail-coverts fawn-colour like the tip 
of the tail, the base of wliich is blackish; cheeks, lores, and chin pale yellow; 
imder-surface of body white tinged with fawn-colour on the fore-neck and breast; 
thiglis fawn-colour like the under wing-coverts; under-surface of flight-quills 
pale brown; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but paler. Bill 
3 'ellow, legs and feet yellowish-oclire, eyes deep brown. Collected at East 
, Murchison, West Australia, on the 18th of September, 1909. 
Immature male. Eore-part of head, chin, sides of neck, greater upper wing-coverts, 
outer webs of primary-coverts, and flight-quills yellow; lores and eye-ring black; 
ear-coverts blacldsli streaked with white; hinder crown, nape, hind-neck, sides 
of neck, back, and lesser upper wing-coverts pale grey tinged with fawn-colour; 
upper tail-coverts fawn-colour, becoming paler and inclining to white towards the 
tips; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and flight-quills hair-brown, with pale 
edgings to the iimer webs of the last; tail-feathers dark brown fringed with 3’fcllow 
and tipped with buffy-wliite; throat wliite; breast and sides of breast grey; 
abdomen, sides of body, and under tail-coverts white; thighs sandy-buff; outer 
edge of wing buffy-white; axillaries and under wing-coverts grey; under-surface 
of flight-quills pale brown; lower aspect of tail pale brown tipp^ with pale buff. 
Ej'es light brown, feet greenisli-yellow, bill orange, gape and bare space round the 
e\'e light yellow. Collected at the Hugh River, New Depot Well, Central 
Australia, on the 26th of September, 1913. 
Bggs. Three to fom* eggs form the clutch, frequently four. A clutch of four eggs taken 
at Buckiinguj^ Station, Central New South Wales, on the 16th of September, 1897, 
is of a rich salmon-colour, spotted, particularly about the larger end, with reddish- 
brown and purplish-grey. Ovals in shape. Surface of shell fine and smooth and 
rather glossj". 26-28 hy 18 mm. 
Nest. An open cup-shaped structure, composed of dried grasses and twigs, lined with 
horse-hair, ^e grasses and other mateidal. Dimensions over all; 6 to 8 inches 
across by to 4^ inches in depth. Placed in a bush or tree at heights varying 
from 7 up to 20 feet or more from the grormd. 
Cup-shaped, somewhat loosely constructed. Outwardl}’’ of thin twigs and lined 
with grasses and fibrous roots, also wool interwoven both inside and out. Outside 
measurements, 3J inches deep by 6 wide; inside, 4 inches across by 2^ inches deep. 
(South Australia). 
Breeding-months. July to November. 
Whek Gould described this species he contented himself with remarking 
upon its similarity in actions and habits to the preceding species as hereafter 
quoted. 
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