THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
edged on the inner web with greyish-white. Bill grey with tip red, eyes umber, 
feet bu£E. Wing 64 mm., tail 40. Figured. Collected on Napier Broome Bay! 
North-west Australia, on the 10th of December, 1909. 
Adult female. Top of the head and cheeks dull scarlet, a narrow line of black feathers 
bordering the crown, succeeded by a band of dull verditer-blue which gradually 
merges into the green of the upper-parts ; back of the neck, mantle, lower back and 
secondaries dull grass-green; rump dull greenish-blue; middle tail-feathers long 
and pointed and black in colour ; outer tail-feathers ash-brown, narrowly tipped 
with w'hite ; chin, throat and sides of the cheeks black ; a narrow ring of greenish- 
white feathers surrounding the fore-part of the neck and continued up the sides of 
the head; chest lavender-pink ; belly and sides of the body silky golden-yellow; 
abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; under-surface of wings ash-grey, bordered 
on the inner web with whitish-buff. Wing 60 mm. Figured. Collected in 
North-west Australia in the autumn of 1905. 
Young. Fore-head, lores and a line behind the eyes across the back of the head black; 
nape and hind-neck ash-grey, gradually shading into the olive colour of the neck, 
mantle, wing-coverts and secondaries; scapulars dull olive-green; rump and 
upper tail-coverts bluish ; middle tail-feathers long and pointed, blackish-grey 
in colour ; outer tail-feathers ashy-grey, narrowly fringed with yellowish-white; 
flight-feathers ash-brown, narrowly marghied on the outer web with dull olive; 
tliroat and fore-neck, as well as the sides of the head, black; chest and upper 
breast pinkish-buff, the feathers on the sides of the breast purplish-pink; sides 
and flanks yellowish-olive, middle of the belly lighter; abdomen and under tail- 
coverts white; undei’-surface of wings and tail ash-grey, margined on the inner 
web with whitish. Eyes umber, feet light horn, bill blackish. Collected at 
Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia, on the 10th of June, 1910. 
Young. Occiput w'hitish-brown, with freslfly'-moulted black and scarlet feathers making 
their appearance ; a line of blue feathers separating the black occiput from the back 
of the head, which is dull olive-green like the neck, mantle, wing-coverts and 
scapulars; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts greenish-blue; primaries 
and secondaries blackish-brown, margined on the outer web with dull olive-gieen; 
central tail-feathers long and very" pointed, dull olive at the base and blackish 
towards their extremity"; outer tail-feathers greydsh-olive fringed at then' tips with 
yellowish-white ; lores, sides of the face, cliin and tluoat black, mixed with a few 
whitish-buff feathers ; chest and upper breast pm’plish-pink; belly and sides of 
the body yellowish-orange, becoming paler on the middle of the belly; thighs 
and under tail-coverts wlute; under-surface of wings and tail ash-grey, margmed 
on the iimer web with whitish. Eyres brown, feet yellow. Collected in Queensland 
in November, 1896. 
Immature. Head, cheeks, sides of the neck and hind-neck ash-^ey, gradually shachng 
into the gireenish-olive colour of the back, wings and tail; primaries blackish- 
brown, margined on the outer web with yrellowish-olive and oti the inner web with 
huffish-white ; under-parts ashy-brown, palest on the chin and middle of the 
belly and under tail-coverts ; undei’-surface of wings and tail ashy-grey. Ej'es 
lilack, feet pink, bill rosy. Collected at Nonnanton, Gulf of Carpentaria, North 
Queensland, on the 11th of October, 1913. 
Eggs. Five to eight eggs form the clutch, five usually. A clutch of five taken at 
Burketown, North Queensland, on the 13th of August, 1895, is white. Ovals in 
shape. Surface of shell fine and smooth, and almost entirely devoid of gloss. 
16 by 11 mm. 
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