THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
315 mm. ; culmen 27, wing 137, taU 153, tarsus 31. Figured. Collected on the 
Warren River, South-west Australia, on the 17th of February, 1910. 
Advlt female similar to the adult male. 
Adult indie. General colour of the upper-surface bronze-brown with blackish centres; 
wliite shaft-streaks and edgings to the feathers on the top of the head, hind-neck, 
back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts, the centres 
darker and inclining to black on the last; flight-quills bladdsh-brown tipped with 
white, fringed with yellowish-green on the outer webs, imier webs of the outer 
quills for the most part bright chestnut wliich fades away towards the innemiost; 
tail-feathers blackish-brown tipped with white and slightly fringed with bronze-green 
on the outer webs ; chin, throat, fore-cheeks and fore-neck dusky-brown, dotted 
with dull wliite, and having hair-like tips to the feathers; sides of face silvery- 
white with dark bases to the feathers ; breast blackish with grey bases to the 
feathers, white shafts and white tips ; abdomen and sides of body similar in colour, 
but the white pattern much more extensive ; thighs and under tail-coverts pale 
browm fringed with whitish; axillaries and under wing-coverts cream-white, 
becoming wliite on the greater series ; under-smiace of flight-quills dark brown 
tipped with white, basal portion cimiamon-rufous ; loww aspect of taU dark brown 
tipped with wliite. Total length 355 mm. ; culmen 22, wing 144, tail 167, tarsus 31. 
Figured. Collected in Tasmania. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface blackish-brown, streaked, dotted, or with 
white edgings to the featheis on the top of the head, liind-neck, back, upper tail- 
coverts, scapulars, wings, and tail ; some of the flight-quUls fringed with dull olive- 
green on the outer webs ; inner webs for the greater part bright chestnut, which 
fades away and become ahnost obsolete on the imiermost; taU broadly tipped 
with white ; cliin and throat dusky greyish-black minutely dotted with whitish; 
sides of face and sides of neck silvery-white with black bases to the feathers; breast 
and upper abdomen lead-grey with black centres and wliite shaft-lines to the feathers; 
lower abdomen and flanlrs similar, but the white is much increased in extent at the 
tips of the feathers ; thiglis and under tail-coverts brown fringed with white; 
axiUaries and under wing-coverts white, the latter marked with black; under¬ 
surface of flight-quiUs dark browm tipped with white, the remainder rufous ; lower 
aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but the dark portion paler. Eyes 
grey, feet ashy-grey, bill black. Total length 288 mm.; culmen 22, wing 128, 
tail 144, tarsus 29. Figured. Collected on Kangaroo Island on the 14th of April, 
1912, and is the type of A. c. halmaturina. 
Adult male similar to the adult female. 
Adult female. Top of the head blackish-brown, each feather margined with dark grey, 
producing a scaled appearance ; lores blackish, a line of deep umber-brown feathers 
from above the eye continued on to the sides of the neck ; back of the neck, mantle 
and wing-coverts brownish-ash, each feather with the entire shaft wliitish and a 
rounded spot at the extremity; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts olive- 
brown with the entire shafts white and each feather terminally margined wth wMte ; 
inner secondaries olive-brown fringed on their outer webs with grey and margined 
at the extremity with wirite ; primaries and outermost secondaries blackish-brorm, 
with the greater part of the inner web chestnut and fringed on the outer web with 
the same colour ; tail-feathers brownish-black, the middle pair with the basal 
two-thirds oUve-grey and aU the feathers widely tipped with white; throat blackisb- 
grey, each feather with a silvery-white spot at the tip, producing a starred appearance; 
a line of sUvery-white feathers below the eye extending down the sides of the neck; 
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