BRUSH WATTLE-BIRD. 
chost ash-coloured with tlie entire shaft and a drop-like spot at the tip white; a 
large patch of white feathers on the sides of breast; tides of the body brownish- 
ash, each feather with the shafts white and with a large wliite spot at the extremity ; 
middle of the belly and the under tail-covcrts white. Eyes dark red, bill blackish- 
hom, feet and legs purplisli-brown. Total length 300 mm. ; cuhnen 28, wing 135, 
tail 143, tarsus 29. Collected on the Vasse River, South-west Atistralia, on the 
23rd of April, 1919. 
Youiig birds are dull brown above, clearer brown on the head, hind-neck and upper tail- 
covorta, with indistinct whitish shafts to the feathers ; the quills have smaller 
white tips, the tail-feathers are more strongly washed with olive tlian in the adult, 
but the lateral feathers only are tipped vnth white; ear-coverts and sides of the 
nock dark brown, all tlie featliora centred with silvery-wlute. all the under-surface 
dull greyish-brown, the feathers on the fore-neck Ixaving indistinct w'hitish shaft- 
streaks.” (North.) 
Yout^. Head, neck, mantle, rump, upper tail-coverts and wing-coverts dark umber- 
brown, each feather with the shafts buffy-wlxite, producing a streaked appearance; 
flight-feathers dark umber-brown tipped with wliite, with the basal two-tliirds 
of the inner w'eb deep chestnut and margined on the outer web with greenish-yellow ; 
secondaries similarly coloured, the outermost widely margined on their inner 
webs with chestnut and outwardly margined with yellowish-green; tail-feathers 
dark blackish-brown tinged with olive, the mid^e pair being uniform and 
the outer pairs widely tipped with white; throat dusky-brown, mesially streaked 
with whitish; chest-feathers and sides of the body bro-wnish-ash with their shafts 
whitish; abdomen and under tail-coverts whitish-bufi with paler shafts to the 
feathers ; under-surface of wing dark ash with the inner webs chestnut. Collected 
in New South Wales. 
Immature male. Head dark brownish-olive, all the shafts of the feathers indistinctly 
streaked with whitish; back of the neck, mantle, rump, upper tail-coverts ash-brown, 
each feather with the shafts white for their entire length ; innermost secondaries 
brownish-ash margined on both webs with whitish ; outermost secondaries dark 
ash-brown margined on the outer web with olive-brown and the inner webs margined 
with rusty chestnut; primaries blackish-brown with the greater part of the irmer 
web and fringed on the outer wnb with chestnut, the outermost primaries fringed 
with whitish towards the tip; tail blackish-brown, all the feathers widely tipped 
on both webs with wliite ; a line of silvery-white feathers down the sides of the face 
from tlie angle of the mouth to the ear-coverts; chin, throat and chest dark grey 
tipped with wliite and with the shafts indistinctly white ; a tuft of whitish feathers 
on each side of the chest; sides of the body grey, becoming whiter on the abdomen. 
Bill dark purple-hom, eyes hazel, feet and legs fleshy. Collected at Albany, South¬ 
west Australia, on the 4th of February, 1905. 
Nest. Cup-shaped ; composed of grass and tendrils and lined wath the soft parts of flowering 
plants. Outside measm’ements, 2 inches deep by almost 4 wide. Inside, 1 inch deep 
by 2^ wide {lunulata). 
Cup-shaped, placed in a fork of a tree. Composed of small twigs, loosely put together. 
The lining of soft grass and w’ool looks like a smaller nest placed inside. Outside 
measurements, 3 inches deep by 6 wide; inside, 1 inch deep by about 3 wide 
{chrysoptera). 
A rather flat or sliallow saucer-shaped structure, composed of thin dead sticks and 
twigs, and usually lined with a good quantity of soft brownish bark broken up into 
very tliin strips. Dimensions over all: 4 to 6 inches across by 2^ to 4 inches in 
depth. 
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