THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Zonceginthus castanotis roehucTci Mathews, Austral Avian Eecord, Vol. I., pt. 8 , p 193 
March 20th, 1913 : Roebuck Bay, North-west Austraha ; id., South Austr. Om 
Vol. III., p. 226, 1918. 
Toeniopygia castanotis castanotis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 298, 1913; S. A. Wliite 
Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 191, 1915. 
Tceniopygia castanotis mouki Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 298, 1915. 
Toeniopygia castanotis aleocandrce Mathews, ih. 
Tceniopygia castanotis roebuchi Mathews, ih. 
Tceniopygia castanotis miingi Mathews, ih. 
Tceniopygia castanotis wayensis Mathews, ih. 
Tceniopygia castanotis hartogi Mathews, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. XL., p. 76, Jan. 30tli, 
1920 : Dirk Hartog Island. 
Distributiok. Australia generally (Carter shot them in south-west, in 1911 and 1916), 
not Tasmania. 
Adult male. Top of the head grey with darker centres to the feathers ; remainder of tlie 
upper-surface brownish-grey, tinged with olive ; longer upper tail-coverts black, 
barred with white ; shorter upper tail-coverts black tipped with wliite ; wings and 
tail greyish-bro-nm; a narrow line of black at the base of the lower mandible succeeded 
by a white bar, margined with black; sides of the face and ear-coverts light chestnut; 
timoat gre^dsh-white barred with black, separated from the wliite under-parts bv 
a black band ; sides of the body chestnut, each feather with an oval spot of white at 
the extremity ; under aspect of quills brownish-grey, margined on the inner webs 
with wliitish-bufE. Eyes Indian red, bill vermilion, legs and feet orange. Total 
length 98 mm. ; culmen 9, wdng 55, tail 32, tarsus 15. Figured. Collected on 
Lake Way, East Mm-chison, West Australia, and is the type of Z. c. tcayensis. 
Adult female. Top of the head grey, with darker centres to the feathers ; back of the neck 
darker grey gradually merging into the brownish-grey of the mantle and wings; 
sides of the rump black tipped with white ; central upper tail-coverts creamy-white, 
longest upper tail-coverts glossy black, widely baiTed and tipped with white; a 
narrow line of black at the base of the lower mandible and a broader one below the 
eye divided by a wdiite bar ; cheeks and sides of neck ash-grey ; throat lighter grey; 
remainder of the under-suiTace including tlie sides of the body creamy-white. Bill 
and eyes red, feet pale red. Total length 109 mm.; culmen 9, w ing 56, tail 34 , 
tarsus 16. Figured. Collected at IMarngle Creek, North-west Australia, on the 
27th of May, 1911. 
I oung. Head, neck, mantle and lower back dark ashy-olive; rump and upper tail- 
coverts white, mixed with a few black feathers ; upper tail-coverts white with a broad 
bar of black across the middle of each feather ; tail dull black, the outer pair of 
feathers margined on their outer web and tipped with white; sides of the facewliitish; 
chin, throat, cheelis and fore-neck grey ; uppei'-breast wliitish-bufE; middle of the 
belly, sides, flanks and under tail-coverts tawny-brown ; middle of the belly wliitish- 
bufi ; under wing-coverts and axillaries whitish-buff ; under-surface of quills ash- 
grey; under-surface of tail brownish-black, tipped with whitish. Collected at 
Derby, North-w^est Australia, on the 24th of July, 1900. 
Eggs. Four to seven eggs form the clutch, usually six, though sometimes as many as 
sixteen and nineteen have been found in the one nest, probably the result of the 
laying of two or thi’ee birds. A clutch of six eggs taken at Borroloola, Macarthur 
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