QUAIL THRUSH. 
ClNCLOSOMA CASTANEOTHOKAX. 
Type. Like C. marginatum, but lacking the black markings on the sides of the body ; in having 
the chest richer chestnut-red, and in having more white and less black on the under tail- 
coverts. 
I have now figured the types of marginatum and castaneothorax : on Plate 44 the 
male from Central Western Queensland and the female from near Charlesville, 
Queensland, and in the Birds of Australia , Vol. IX., the male and female of 
cinnamomea from South Australia and a male and female from West Australia. 
On comparing these four plates, as well as a big series of skins, I consider them 
all one species, of which the name is Samuela cinnamomea, and admit 
Samuela cinnamomea cinnamomea. Interior of South Australia. 
Samuela cinnamomea castaneothorax. Queensland 
(of which marginatum is a synonym). 
Samuela cinnamomea nea. Mid-Western Australia, the nest and eggs 
of which are described by North as 
Nest. An open cup-shaped structure, formed throughout principally of thin strips of dead bark, 
with which is intermingled a few dried grasses and plant stems. Outwardly it is irregularly 
constructed, the inner cup measuring three inches and a half in diameter by two inches 
and a quarter deep. Placed on stony ground in exposed situations or under small banks. 
Eggs. Clutch two ; slightfy swollen oval to pointed in shape ; shell close-grained, smooth and 
lustrous. Dull white, over which is distributed numerous freckles, small, irregular-shaped 
spots, and a few larger burred markings of different shades of brown, intermingled with a 
few underlying spots of dull bluish-grey. In the smaller specimen the markings are slightly 
more thickly and evenly disposed ; in the other there is a tendency to form an irregular 
zone at the larger end, many of the markings being penumbral or partially overlying 
one another. 27 to 29 mm. by 19 to 20. 
Breeding-season. June (13th) : Wiluna, Lake Way district, West Australia. 
Another set of two is dull white, thickly sj)otted over the entire surface of the shell 
with different shades of brown and wood-brown, and intermingled with a few underlying 
markings of pale violet-grey. 29 mm. by 20. 
Breeding-season. August (19th): Mount Ida district, West Australia. 
