Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 92. 
Family SPHEC0THER1DA. 
SPHECOTHERES STALKERI. 
DOUBTFUL FIG-BIRD. 
(Plate 69.) 
Sphecotheres stalkeri Ingram, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXI., p. 100, May 30th, 1908: 
Mount Elliot, near Townsville, North Queensland; Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. IX., pt. iv., 
p. 169, Oct. 19th, 1921. 
Sphecotheres salvadori stalkeri Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 436, 1912. 
At the above quotation in 1921 I gave the history of this form. 
Adult male. Entire head, occiput and nape glossy blue-black, a dark grey collar round the hind- 
neck ; general colour above, including the scapulars, lower back, rump and wing-coverts 
dark olive-green with grey bases to the feathers ; bastard-wing black, margined with dark 
grey ; primary-coverts black, margined with olive-green ; primary-quills greyish-black, 
the outermost ones margined on the outer w’eb with grey, the innermost with olive-green; 
secondaries greyish-black, broadly margined on the outer w r eb with olive-green; middle 
tail-feathers black, outer pairs white, blackish-grey on the inner web at the base ; lores and 
space round eye naked and of a bright pale blue (sic) colour ; sides of face and ear-coverts 
black ; chin, throat, neck and chest grey, some of the feathers of the throat margined with 
white ; upper breast olive-green, shading into yellow’ on the low T er breast; abdomen white, 
tinged with y r ellow r ; sides of body, flanks and thighs like the upper breast; under tail- 
coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries greyish-olive ; quills below ash-grey, 
shading into light grey on the inner w r eb. Iris brown, bill black, feet pinky-cream. 
Total length 270 mm. : culmen 23 ; wing 146 ; tail 105 ; tarsus 26. Mt. Elliot, Townsville, 
North Queensland, December, 1907. 
Nest and eggs not described. 
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