THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
soiled whit©; under tail-coverts white with concentric bands of greyish-browu 
Eyes light brown, feet olive, bill blackisli. Total length 380 mm ; culmen 29 
wing 180, tail 149, tarsus 52. Figured. Collected on the McArthur River Gulf 
of Carpentaria, Northern Territory, on the 20th of September, 1913 (pi.’586) 
Adult male. Lores, top of the head and sides of the face ash-grey, bordered with wditish • 
a bar of beautiful rose-lilac, shaded towards the extremity with lilac-blue, bordered 
above at the sides with the white tips of the upper neck; upper mantle brownish- 
ash with shaft-streaks of fawn-colour ; lower mantle, back, wing-coverts, rump 
and upper tail-coverts ash-brown, each feather widely tipped with whitish-grey^ 
tail ash-brown, margined on the outer webs wdth whitish-grey; primaries grmdsh- 
brown, with the outer webs wliitish-grey; secondaries ash-brown, margined on 
both webs with grejdsh-wliite ; chin, tliroat, chest and sides of the bod.y uniform 
smoky-grey; middle of the belly and abdomen greyish-white; under tail-coverts 
white, each feather with concentric bands of greyish-browm ; under-surface of wing 
glossed silvery-wliite. Eyes brown, feet and "tarsus olive-brown, bill blackish 
Total length 365 mm. ; culmen 28, wing 171, tail 157, tarsus 48’. Collected on 
Melville Island, Northern Territory, on the 13th November, 1911. 
Adult female. Lores and feathers of the top of the head, nape and hind-neck ash-grey 
the feathers with a median spot of brown ; whig-coverts, upper mantle, back, nunp 
and upper tail-coverts ash-brown, widely margined at the tip with grejish-white^- 
tail ash-brown, tipped at the extremity with wliite ; primaries ash-brown, becoming 
white towards the base of the inner web and margined on the outer web with 
brownish-white, all the feathers tipped with wliite; secondaries ash-brown 
widely margined on the iimer web with wdiite, and the outer webs more narrowly 
fringed ivith white, and all tipped with white; chin, throat, chest and sides of 
the body smoky-grey; middle of the belly and abdomen yeUowish-white; under 
tail-coverts wliite with narrow concentric bars of brown. Eyes browm, f^t and 
tarsus olive-brown, bill blackish-brown. Total length 355 mm. ; c^en 28 
wing 167, tail 130, tarsus 44. Collected on 3Ielville Island, Northern Territory’ 
on the 14th of May, 1912. 
Nearly adult male. Feathers of the lores, fore-head and crown ash-brown, spotted at the 
extremity with greyish-wiiite; a band of gUstening lilac-pink feathers across the 
back of the neck, hind-neck uniform ash-brown; mantle, wnng-coverts, back 
rump and upper tail-coverts ash-brown, each feather margined with grejish- 
wliite, producii^ a spotted appearance ; tail-feathers ash-brown, darker towards 
the tip which is broadly wliite; primaries ash-brown, becoming white towards 
the base of the inner web ; the outer web margined with white; primary-coverts 
deep asli-brown, widely tipped ivith wliite; secondaries dark ash-brown, margined 
on the inner web with wliitish and on the outer with grev; cliin, cheeks, throat, 
chest and sides of the body ash-grey; middle of the belly and abdomen white ; 
under tail-coverts white with concentric bars of brownish. Eyes brown, feet dark 
grey, bill dark brown. Total length 355 mm. ; culmen 29, wing 170, tail 135, 
tarsus 48. Collected on Inkerman, North Queensland, in September, 1907. The 
mac feathers on the crown are fanned out and fonvard like a rosette while the bird 
is displaydng (dancing). 
Immature female. Feathers of the top of the head greyish-brown, each feather with w'hitish 
shaft-streaks and spotted at the extremity with whitish; hind-neck and mantle 
smoky-grey with indistinct grey shafts; wing-coverts, back and scapulars deep 
siuoky-grey, each feather with a large white spot at the extremity; rump and upper 
tail-coverts smoke-grey with a gre3rish-white spot near the tip; tail ash-brown, 
maigined on the outer webs with olive-grey and widely tipped with white; 
primaries brownish-grey, outwardly margined with olive-grey and vith the margins 
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