Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family C1NCL0S0MAT1DJE. 
No. 94. 
CALAMANTHUS FULIGINOSUS. 
(WINTAM.) 
STRIATED FIELD-WREN. 
(Plate 71.) 
CALAMANTHUS winiam A. J. and A. C4. Campbell, Emu, Vol. XXVII., pt. n., p. 80, Oct. 17th, 1927 : 
Winiam, south of Nhill, Victoria ( cf., ib., id., pt. in., p. 221, Jan. 4t.h, 1928) ; id., ib., pt. iv., 
p. 223, coloured plate 31, April 3rd, 1928 ; Mathews, Birds Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, 
p. 126, Oct. 16th, 1928 (cf. Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. IX., pt. vi.,pl.434,Eeb. 15th, 1922). 
Distribution. Western Victoria to South Australia (the Sandy Desert). 
Adult male. Fore-head and crown of head strongly washed with chestnut, remainder of the upper- 
surface of the body olive-grey, each feather with a broad mesial streak of black, producing 
a heavily streaked appearance : vdng-coverts like the back but fringed with grey ; primary 
and secondar} 7 quills ash-browTi, slightly margined on the outer w eb with olive ; middle 
tail-feathers olive-greyish, indistinctly barred across with dusky and with an elongated 
marking of black towards the extremity ; remainder of the tail dull chestnut with a broad 
bar of black across the end and broadly tipped with white ; a line of white feathers above 
the eye extending from the liind-part of the crowui to the base of the bill; a small patch of 
wiiite below the eye ; sides of face, ear-coverts and cheeks washed with dull chestnut; 
chin, throat, sides of neck and chest white, each feather with a broad mesial streak of black ; 
breast and abdomen wiiite tinged with cream ; sides of the body and under tail-coverts 
buff streaked with black ; imder wing-coverts rich buff ; quills below dark ash, faintly 
margined on the inner web with buff. Upper mandible browm, low r er mandible dull flesh ; 
feet dull flesh ; iris clay-colour. Total length 130 mm. : culmen 14, wing 58, tail 51, 
tarsus 24. 
The female resembles the male, but the ground-colour of the upper-surface is light buff, not wiiite. 
Wing 53 mm. The young bird on leaving the nest resembles the adult female—well streaked 
above and below. 
Nest. Build in slight hollow T scooped in the sand. Oval in shape, placed on its side with entrance 
at one end ; built of short-, fine, greyish pieces of grass intermixed with brownish, downy 
portions of banksia cones ; upper outside structure composed of dead, greyish, weather¬ 
beaten grass, very small sticks and fine dead branchlets of bushes. Lined inside with a thick 
ply of feathers. Length about six inches, height and breadth four inches, entrance one and 
a half inches. 
Eggs. Clutch three, short, ovate in shape ; texture of shell comparatively fine, surface glossy ; 
colour w'ood-browm, with darker soft blotches of the same colour (or chestnut) about the 
upper quarter. 20-21 mm. by 15*2-15*7. 
Breeding-season. September. 
This new sub-species was collected by the Campbells in 1927, and the above 
information published in the Emu . I am indebted to Mr. J. A. Kershaw for 
sending me over the skin to be figured and described. 
Compared with 1113 ^ long series of the species, this form comes nearest to 
montanellus , but the bill is slightly longer and the under-parts lack the yellow 
tinge. Three skins from Maningie resemble winiam , but are not so white 
underneath and the stripes on the breast are not quite so heavy. 
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