Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 93. 
Family C1NCLOSOMATIDJE. 
SAMUELA CASTANE OTH OR AX and MARGINATUS. 
QUAIL THRUSH. 
(Plate 70.) 
Cinclosoma castaneothorax Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1848, p. 139, pi. vi., June 1st, 1849 : 
Darling Downs, “ N.S.W.”=Queensland. 
Cinclosoma marginatum Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Yol. VII., p. 336, (pref. July 1st) 1883 : 
North-west Australia error=North-western New South Wales. 
Samuela cinnamomea Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. IX., pt. v., p. 196, Dec. 15th, 1921 ; id., Vol. XII., 
pt. x., pp. 427-8, Feb. 8th, 1927. 
Cinclosoma castaneothorax. 
Type. Fore-head, top of the head and back of the neck olive-brown ; mantle brownish-chestnut , 
back and rump dull chestnut; upper tail-coverts olive-brown washed with chestnut; wing- 
coverts black, broadly tipped with pure white ; primary-quills ash-brown, the outermost 
narrowly margined on the outer web with whitish-buff and the inner primaries with dull 
rufous ; secondaries olive-brown very broadly margined on both webs with light chestnut; 
middle pair of tail-feathers blackish-brown, fringed at the extremity with white, remaining 
pairs deep black, very broadly tipped with pure white ; lores black ; a broad white super- 
cilium ; sides of face and ear-coverts like the head ; chin and throat black glossed with dull 
violet-blue ; sides of the throat bordered with white ; upper chest and sides of the breast 
reddish-chestnut with a large patch of black feathers tipped with white ; breast, belly and 
abdomen white ; under tail-coverts brownish-isabelline, bordered and tipped with white; 
under wing-coverts white. Total length about 225 mm. : culmen (broken) 15, wing 100, 
tail 84, tarsus 29. 
CmCLOSOMA MARGINATUM. 
Male. Type. Crown of the head, occiput and nape umber-brown, shading into the general colour 
of the upper-parts, which are dull chestnut-brown, brightest on the rump and upper tail- 
eoverts ; scapulars like the back ; all the coverts of the wing black, with a large spot at 
the extremity of each feather; primary-quills dark ash-brown with the outer web very narrowly 
margined with white, the central primaries with a white spot at the base ; secondaries dar t 
ash-brown, the innermost one with the inner web chestnut and all broadly margined on le 
outer weh with reddish-chestnut; middle tail-feathers black with the basal half chestnut, 
remainder of the tail black with very broad white tips ; eye-brows buff ; lores and feathers 
below the eye black ; sides of face and ear-coverts dark umber-brown ; cheeks white , 
chin and throat glossy black ; a broad line of isabehine-buff feathers from the angle of the 
mouth down the sides of the neck ; fore-neck and chest duU reddish-chestnut , a large 
patch of black across the lower chest, extending down the sides of the chest abdomen white , 
feathers of the sides of the body and flanks dull reddish-chestnut on the outer web, white on 
the inner web, with a large spot of black at the extremity giving a str.ped appearance to the 
sides of the body ; under tail-coverts black, the base brownish-buff, ^^^fflw ash 
outer web and the tip white ; under wing-coverts and axillanes wlute qrnlls below ash, 
paler on the inner webs. Total length 240 mm. : culmen 15, wing 98, tail 108, tarsus 30. 
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