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THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA 
Notes. —Also called Chestnut-backed Ground-bird and Chestnut- 
backed Ground-thrush. Usually in pairs or family parties. It is shy and 
local in habits; when flushed it rises with a “whirr,” flies a short distance, 
and alights on the ground or on a low limb of a tree. Frequents alike 
open forest country, mallee, “marlock,” and mulga scrubs. Call-note a 
low piping whistle. Food: chiefly insects. The female is duller than the 
male, the throat and chest being grey. 
Nest. —A depression in the ground, loosely lined with twigs, strips of 
bark, and dead leaves; sheltered by a dead bush. 
Eggs. —Two, dull white or greyish-white, spotted all over, more so 
at the larger end, with brown and lavender markings. Breeding-season: 
August to December. 
4. Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush Cinclosoma castaneothorax Gould 
cas-tan'-e-o-tho'-rax — L., castaneus , chestnut; Gk, thorax, chest. 
Distribution. —Southern Queensland, inland to north-western Aus¬ 
tralia, and Western Australia. 
Notes. —Also called Chestnut-breasted Ground-thrush. Little i; 
known of the habits of this rare species except that it frequents scrubby 
belts of trees; when flushed it is difficult to find again. The female is 
duller in colour than the male. 
Nest. —Not described. 
. Eggs—A. J. North describes an egg said to be of this species as dull 
white, thickly sprinkled with irregular shaped dots, spots, and small 
blotches of blackish-brown, intermingled with similar underlying markin'* 
of inky-grey, which predominate on the larger end. 
5. Spotted Quail-thrush Cinclosoma punctatiim Shaw 
punc-ta -turn —L., punctatus, spotted. 
Southern Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, 
South Australia, and Tasmania. 
Ir° ca J led , S P 0 T tte d Ground-bird, Ground-thrush, Ground- 
habits Tr ^abbbng-thrush. Usually in pairs or family parties; local i: 
SS f' J f ls ,. rather a shy species - and when flushed rises like a Quail. 
o a tra Sr 06 ! a T y ’- and 6itber alightS on the ground or on a M 
The nn!, ; „ hlefly m f cts ’ Procured on the ground under debris, 
the snot ni tl vi /il colour than the male, his the throat white, 
across the breast ° 18 light rufous > but lacks the black band 
bark A W^^?r Shaped ’ 1 ?-° Se ! y P Ut together, and composed of strips of 
foot of a'Tree med f lth Softer materials. Usually built at the 
low bush ’ r ° C v ° r ° r hidden against a tuft of grass or 
brownTdTavSA^flt™ 8 thr I e ’ d “ U whi ". spotted all over with** 
own and lavender markings. Breeding-season: August to February 
