678 
Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on a 
female. Under parts white, the throat- and breast-feathers 
with brownish-black shaft-streaks; sides of the belly and 
flanks slightly washed with buff; quills brownish with pale 
margins to the outer webs; wing-coverts blackish-brown, 
margined with white when freshly moulted ; under wing- 
coverts white; tail-feathers dark grey, with a black sub¬ 
terminal band and tipped with white. 
Iris yellowish-white; bill pinkish-cinnamon-brown, darker 
along the culmen ; legs pinkish-cinnamon. 
cJ . Total length, measured in the flesh, 5*0 inches; culmen 
from gape 0*65 ; wing 2*05 ; tail 1*8 ; tarsus 0*8. 
$ . Total length, measured in the flesh, 4’5 inches ; culmen 
from gape C‘6; wing D85 ; tail 1’65 ; tarsus 0*78. 
a-h. $ ?. Bernier Island, 23rd June-6th July. 
(Including types of the species .) 
[Balston’s Scrub-Wren was fairly plentiful on Bernier 
Island. It was also believed to have been seen around 
Carnarvon .—G . C. $.] 
Acanthiza inornata (Gould). 
Acanthiza inornata Math. p. 74. 
Ad. Dale River, 8th Jan. 
Iris pale yellow. 
This paler bird from Beverley, W. Australia, bears out the 
distinctions pointed out by Mr. North between this species 
and A. mastersi North. 
Acanthiza mastersi North. 
Acanthiza mastersi Math. p. 75. 
a-d. $ et imm. King River, 7th Dec.-15th Feb. 
Iris pale straw-yellow in the adult; grey or greenish-white 
in the young ; bill black ; legs dark brown. 
Immature examples differ from the adult in having the 
feathers of the throat and fore-neck with narrow r dusky 
margins, the general colour above darker brown, the rump 
and upper tail-coverts reddish olive-brown, instead of olive- 
brown, and the greater wing-coverts edged with rufous. 
[Masters’ Thorn-Bill was abundant in the south-west.— 
G. C. S.] 
