RED WATTLE-BIRD. 
Mimus caru'muUitus Buller, Essay New Zeal. Om. (pref. Feb.), p. 10, 1866 : New Zealand 
(accidental). 
Anihochcera bulleri Finsch, Joum. fur Ornith., 1867 (for Sept.), p. 307: new name for 
^*Mt7nns carunculatiis Buller.” 
AiUhochcera caruncnlata caruncidaia Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 418, Jan. Slst, 
1912. 
AnihochcBra carxincvlata iregellasi Mathews, t6., p. 419: (Frankston) Victoria; td., Austral 
Av. Roc., Vol. I., p. 63, 1912 (Eggs). 
AnihochcBra carunc'olata woodicardi Mathews, ib, : (Broome Hill) West Australia; id.. 
Austral Av, Rec., Vol. I., p. 63, 1912 (Eggs). 
Coleia canmculata canincidata Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 287, 1913. 
Coleia caruncnlata iregellasi Mathews, t6., p. 288; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 351, 1914. 
Coleia caruncnlata nxyoduxirdi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 287, 1913. 
Coleia caruncxdata clelandi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pts. 2-3, p. 38, Feb. 21st, 
1923 : Kangaroo Island. 
Coleia caruncnlata 'perihi Mathews, : Perth, West Australia. 
Bistribxjtion. South Queensland ; New Soutli Wales; Victoria, South Australia; 
South-west Australia. 
Adult male. Lores, fore-head, and crown black with wliitish shaft-stripes; back of the 
neck, mantle, back, rump and wing-coverts greyish-black, each feather with a 
broiid wliite streak down the shaft, terminating in a point ; upper tail-coverts 
greyish-black with a very broad margin of white ; two middle pairs of tail-feathere 
greyish-black tipped with white and bordered on the outer webs with gre 3 d 8 h- 
white; outer pah’s of tail-feathers black, widely tipped wdth white; outer 
primaries black tipped with white, and narrow^ margined on the base of the 
inner web with pale fawn; inner primaries black, narrowly margined on the outer 
w^eb and broadly on the imier w^eb with pinkisli-buff; secondaries black, margined 
on both webs with white ; feathers in front of and below the eye silvery-wliite 
with black bases; chin smoky-black ; tliroat, neck and upper-breast ash-brown 
with broad sliaft-streaks of white; middle of the bell}" bright golden-yellow; 
under tail-coverts ash-brown, very wdely margined with wliite. Total length 
345 mm. ; culmen 25, wing 162, tail 172, tarsus 36. Figured. Collected at 
Frankston, Victoria, on the 20th of April, 1908, and is the type of A. c. iregellasi. 
Adtdl female. Fore-part of head, including the lores and upper region of eye, blackisli; 
hinder-crown blackisli-brown wdth wMte shaft-lines to the feathers; fore-part 
of cheeks blackish ; space in front, below, and behind the eye silvery-wliite lilce the 
sides of the crown ; Under cheeks and ear-coverts blackish at the base and tipped 
with white; liind-neck, sides of neck and mantle paler than the crown and the 
shaft-streaks more conspicuous ; back and scapulars similar but slightly darker 
and the shaft-streaks lanceolate in foina ; rump and upper tail-coverta simUio* 
with enlarged colour-pattern ; upper wing-coverts dark brown rnargined with wliite ; 
the primary-coverts fringed with buff on the inner webs; flight-quills also dark 
brown edged on the outer webs and tipped with white, the imier webs margined with 
buff ; tail-feathers dark brown tipped with white, the middle ones somewhat paler 
than the lateral ones ; chin dark brown with dark hair-like tips to the feathers; 
throat pale brown with white lanceolate shaft-streaks, which become less conspicuous 
on the breast, upper abdomen, and sides of body ; lower abdomen and vent bright 
vellow ; thighs earth-brown; under tail-coverts white with pale brown shaft- 
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