Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 64. 
Family CINCLOSOMATIDAZ. 
SAMUELA CASTANEOTHORAX. 
CHESTNUT-BREASTED QUAIL -THRUSH. 
(Plate 44.) 
Samtxela cinnamomea Mathews, Birds Ausfcr., Vol. IX., pt. v., p. 196, Dec. 15th, 1921: Partim; 
id., Vol. XII., pt. 10, pp. 427-428, Eeb. 8th, 1927. 
Cinclosoma castaneothorax A. J. Campbell, Emu, Vol. XXV., pt. 3, p. 152, Eeb. 11th, 1926. 
Adult male. Crown of the head, occiput, nape and hind-neck dull earth-brown, each feather 
with a concealed mesial streak of brownish-black ; a line of whitish-buff feathers round 
the base of the bill and continued over the eye ; lores black ; a broad band of snow-white 
feathers from the angle of the mouth, continued along the sides of the throat and surround¬ 
ing the throat, which is glossy bluish-black; ear-coverts and cheeks dull earth-brown; 
fore-neck, and chest bright reddish-cinnamon; a large patch of black feathers, tipped 
with white, on the upper-breast; lower-breast and belly pure white, black at the base; 
sides of the body and flanks cinnamon-brown faintly washed with white towards the tips 
of the feathers ; thighs earth-brown ; under tail-coverts very long, blackish-olive, tipped 
and margined with white and with blackish shafts ; under wing-coverts white ; axillarie 3 
dull olive, quills below dull grey, whitish on the outer web. Total length 235 mm.: 
culinen 15, wing 100, tail 100, tarsus 28. Figured. Collected at Barcarolle, West Central 
Queensland, on the 4th of September, 1925. 
Adult female. Head, nape, hind-neck and mantle dull earth-brown ; scapulars brownish-chestnut, 
with faint black mesial shaft-streaks ; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts reddish- 
chestnut with the shafts black; wing-coverts black, broadly tipped with pure white; 
quills dark ash, very faintly margined with white ; secondaries dark ash very faintly 
margined with white ; secondaries dark ash, very broadly margined on the outer web with 
chestnut-buff; middle pair of tail-feathers uniform dark brownish-ash; remainder of the 
tail-feathers deep black, broadly tipped v r ith pure white; lores and eyebrow cinnamon- 
buff ; sides of the face and ear-coverts brownish-buff; chin and throat cinnamon; 
fore-neck and chest greyish-chestnut; sides of the body, flanks and thighs chestnut- 
cinnamon ; middle of the chest, breast and belly pure white ; under tail-coverts greyish- 
chestnut, margined towards the extremity and at the tip with white ; under wing-coverts 
white, quills below light grey. Bill black, iris brown, feet leaden. Total length 
232 mm. : culinen 15, wing 98, tail 93, tarsus 28. Figured. Collected at Adavale- 
Charlesville Road, Queensland, on the 27th of August, 1923. 
This form is considered a species by some workers ; I have had a plate 
prepared which can be compared with the plates given in my Birds of 
Australia, Vol. IX., pis. 425-6. 
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