REGENT-BIRD. 
(N.Q.); S. A. White, ih., VoL XIX., p. 220, 1920 ; Jackson, ih.y p. 267 ; ic?., i&., 
Vol. XX., p. 207, 1921 (Q.). 
Sericvlus chryaocephalm chrysocepJmlus Mathews, Nov. ZooL, Vol. XVIII., p. 440, 1912 ; 
id., List Birds Austr., p. 311, 1913. 
Smcvlus clirysoce^halus roihschildi Mathews, Nov. ZooL, Vol. XVIII., p. 441, Jan. 31st, 
1912: Blackall Ranges, South Queensland; id.. List Birds Austr., p, 311, 1913. 
Distribution. New South Wales, Queensland. 
Advli nude. Lores, top of the head, neck and upper mantle golden-yellow tinged with 
carmine, especially on the fore-head and crown, the feathers being of a tliick plush¬ 
like texture; lower mantle, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, tail and wing-coverts 
glossy-black with bluish reflections; two outermost primaries uniform black, 
the next three pairs for the greater part yellow, but vddely tipped and with the 
outer webs black ; innermost primaries and secondaries bright orange-yellow, 
narrowly tipped with black; feathers in front of the eye and a narrow line above 
the eye and the entire under-surface of the body glossy black. Eyes light yellow, 
legs and feet black, bill yellow. Total length 235 mm. ; culmen 25, wing 134, tail 
90, tarsus 40. Figured. Collected on the Riclimond River, Northern New South 
Wales, in October, 1907. 
In the form from the Blackall Ranges the black is of a more intense glossy black; 
the wing is also shorter. 
Advli fenude. Lores and fore-head brownish-wliite faintly bordered with black; crown 
purplish-black, an indistinct collar of dull white feathers margined with ash-brown 
round the hind-neck; mantle and back olive-brown, each feather with a wide 
concentric marking of dull white with a spot of olive-brown in the middle; lower 
back, rump and upper tail-coverts brownish-olive, the former with a few spots 
of yollowish-wliite near the extremity; tail-feathers olive-brown, margined on 
the outer webs with brighter olive ; primaries and secondaries olive-brown, slightly 
margined with greenish-olive ; ear-coverts yellowish-white strongly suffused with 
deep brown; chin dull white ; tliroat with a patch of black feathers making their 
appearance, remainder of the under-surface of the body dull white, each barred 
and fringed at the extremity with olive-brown ; under-surface of quills olive fringed 
on the inner web with golden-oUve. Eyes dusky, feet and legs giey, bill black. 
Total length 253 mm. ; culmen 23, wing 137, tail 106, tarsus 39. Figured, 
Collected on the Tweed River, Northern New South Wales, on the 10th of August, 
1912. 
Eggs. Two eggs form the clutch, very rarely three. A clutch of two eggs taken at Teven s 
Creek, near Lismore, Riclimond River, New South Wales, on the 7th of December, 
1908, is of a pale yellowish-stone ground-colour, most beautifully and delicately 
marked and marbled with lines and hair-like marking of olive-brown, blackish- 
brown and dull purplish-slate, which turn and twist in all directions, the greater 
portion of them encircling the eggs and resembling coloured thread carelessly 
wound upon it. The markings are most numerous at the central or wildest part 
of each egg, on up to the larger end; while the smaller or pointed ends are much 
less marked. In many instances the eggs of tliis species are free of markings at 
both ends, and as is often the case with Chlciinydera maculatct, and the eggs of other 
species of the Chlamydera group. Beautiful ovals in shape. Surface of shell fine 
and smooth and rather glossy. 39-40 by 27 mm. 
^tsi. A rather deep saucer-shaped structure, composed of tliin dry sticks and twigs, 
and sometimes the yellowish dried stems of climbing plants and tree orchids. It 
is not unlike the nest of Chlamydera maoulata. Dimensions over all, 10 to 12 
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