Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 733. 
Faniihj PTILONOHRYNOHID^.. 
ALPHACHLAMYDERA CERVTNIVENTRIS. 
1 A W N - B K E A S T i: 1) B O E R - BI R D. 
(Plate 686.) 
Chlamydera ceeviniventris Gould in Jardine’s Contr. Ornitli., 1850, p. (160) 106; 
Capo York, Queensland. 
Chlamydera* cerviniventris Gould in Jardine’s Contr. Ornith., 1850, p. (160) 106 ; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1850, p. 201, 1851 ; id.. Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. 36 (pt. m.). Sept. 
1st, 1859 ; td., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 454, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 191, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VI., p. 393, 
1881; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 11, 1888 ; Sharpe, Mon. Paradis., Vol. 2, 
pi. 28, 1891; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 22, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 206, 1901; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol.T., 
p. 68, 1902 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 106, 1908 ; Macgillivray, Emu, 
Vol. X., p. 231, 1910 (N.Q.); Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 30, 1911 (N.Q.); Campbell, 
ib., Vol. XIII., p. 68, pi. XL, 1913 (Eggs) ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 183, 1914 ; id., 
ib., Vol. XW!., p. 210, 1918. 
Chbmydodera recondita Meyer, Abh. Mus. Dresden, No. 10, p. 2, 1895 ; German New 
Guinea. 
Chlamydera cerviniventris cerviniventris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVJII., p. 440, 1912; 
id., List Birds Austr., p. 310, 1912. 
Alyhachlamydera cerviniventris cerviniventris Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., 
p. 112,1914. 
Alphachlamydera cerviniventris nova Mathews, ib., pt. 7, p. 132, Jan. 28th, 1915 : New. 
Guinea. 
Distribution. North Queensland. (New Guinea.) 
Adult male. Lores and fore-head pale ash-grey, mesially streaked with white ; top of the 
bead, neck and upper mantle uniform pale ashy-grey; upper back, rump and 
upper tail-coverts ash-brown with faint whitish shaft-streaks, and with a white 
spot at the tip of each feather; tail ash-browm slightly margined on the imier 
web with whitish and tipped with white ; primaries ash-brown, lighter on the edge 
of the outer web ; secondaries ash-brown, margined on the irmer web with whitish 
and broadly tipped with white; cliin, throat, fore-neck and cheeks smoky-white, 
margined with dusky ; remainder of the under-suid’ace of the body rich tawny- 
buS, brightest on the belly and under tail-coverts. Eyes brown, feet olive, bill 
black. Total length 290 mm. ; cuhnen 23, wing 145, tail 112, tarsus 42. Figm ed. 
Collected at Cape York, North Queensland, on the 3rd of July, 1912. 
* Also spelt Chlamydodera. 
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