SILVERY-CROWNED FRIAR-BIRD. 
Advil male. General colour of the upper-surface pale earth-brown, including the back, 
wings, and tail, the feathers on the back and upper tail-coverts slightly fringed 
with white at the tips ; flight-quills and tail-feathers somewhat darker than the 
back; top of head, liind-nock, and sides of neck silvery-wliite with dark shaft- 
• streaks on the former and dark bases to the feathers of the two latter ; chin, tliroat, 
and breast silvery-wliite with dark shaft-lines and lanceolate tips to the feathers ; 
sides of breast like the back. Eyes grey, bill black, feet dark grey. Total length 
290 mm. ; culmen from knob 23, wing 140, tail 110, tarsus 33. Figured. Collected 
at Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia, on the 7th of March, 1910, and is 
the type of P. o. broomei. 
Advil feymle similar to the adult male. 
Adull female. General colour of the upper-surface earth-brown, including the lower hind- 
neck, sides of neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, wings, and tail; 
top of head and nape silvery-white with dark shaft-streaks; sides of neck and 
liind-neck dark brown with whitish tips to the feathers ; cliin and throat while 
with hair-like tips to the feathers on the former ; fore-neck silverj^-wliite with dark 
shaft-streaks and lanceolate tips to the feathers; breast, abdomen, sides of body, 
thigliB, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and imder wing-coverts drab-grey; under¬ 
surface of flight-quills glossy hair-brown with white shafts ; lower aspect of tail 
similar but paler. Eyes red, orbits and naked akin of head black; feet and tarsus 
leaden-brown, bill black. Total length 280 mm.; culmen from knob 25, wing 127, 
tail 103, tarsus 29. Figured. Collected on Melville Island, Northern Territory, 
on the 27th of May, 1912. 
AdvU male similar to the adult female. 
Nearly advil male. Fore-head and middle of the crown silvery-white, each feather with 
a dark brown shaft^stripe ; mantle and wing-coverts ash-grey, widely bordered 
with white ; rump and upper tail-coverts of a very soft texture and of a reddish- 
buff ; primaries and secondaiies brownish-ash, the former fringed with olive-grey 
on the outer w^eb and the latter margined on the outer web with olive-green; tail 
brownish-ash, fringed on the outer webs with olive-green, slightly tipped with 
rust-colour; sides of tlae face, above and behind the eye, naked; chin and upper 
throat white, tinged with yellow ; lownr throat white ; wing dark; shaft-streaks 
tinged w*ith yellow; chest, sides of the body greyish-fawn; middle of the belly whitish; 
under tail-coverts light ash. Eyes greyish-brown, orbits black, feet and tarsus 
leaden-bluo, bill and naked skin on head black. Collected on Melville Island, 
Northern Territory, on the 17th of June, 1912. 
“ Young birds resemble the adults, but all the feathers on the upper-parts are margined 
with wlute around their tips ; the upper tail-coverts, too, have a slight fulvescent 
tinge ; the feathers on the sides of the neck are brown, and those on the throat 
dull white, washed with yellow.” (North.) 
Immaiure. A high compresred casque at the base of the upper mandible; sides of the 
face and over the eye devoid of feathers ; middle of the head white with ash bases 
and with a fine hair-streak of brown down each feather ; mantle light greyish-ash, 
broadly margined at the extremity with white ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts rufous-brown; primaries and secondaries and tail greyish-ash, margined 
on the outer web with yellowish-olive ; chin and throat light yellow with hair¬ 
like extremities; chest greyish-ash, widely margined with ^ yellowish-white, 
remainder of the under parts pale greyish-ash. darker on the sides of the body. 
Collected on Port Daiwin, Northern Territory, in April 1902. 
Eggs. Two to three eggs form the clutch, two usually. A clutch of two eggs taken at 
Lockerbie, Cape York, North Queensland, on the 1st of December, 1910, is of a 
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