GERYGONE ALBOGULARIS, Gow. 
White-throated Gerygrone. 
- Psilopus albogularis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part V. p. 147 ; and in Syn. Birds of Austraha, Part IV. 
Tus sprightly and active little bird is a stationary species and is abundantly dispersed oyer all parts 
of New South Wales, but evinces a greater preference for the open forests of Huealyptt than for the 
brushes near the coast. I found it in considerable numbers in every part of the Upper Hunter district, 
nearly always among the gum-trees, and constantly uttering a peculiar and not very harmonious strain. 
Like its near allies it is very active among the small leafy branches of the trees, where it searches with 
the greatest avidity for insects, upon which it almost exclusively subsists ; resorting for this purpose to 
trees of all heights, from the low sapling of two yards high to those of the loftiest growth. 
I believe that a species very nearly allied to the present inhabits the north coast of Australia: it is 
very readily distinguished by the markings of the tail; and must not be confounded with the bird here 
represented. 
I have killed young birds in January which had not long left the nest, but was not so fortunate as to 
discover the nest itself. 
The sexes are nearly alike in plumage; but the young of the year are distinguished from the adult by 
the throat being of the same colour as the breast, instead of white. 
Crown of the head, ear-coverts, and all the upper surface olive-brown; throat white; chest and all the 
under surface bright citron-yellow ; two centre tail-feathers brown, the remainder brown at the base, above 
which is a bar of white, succeeded by a broader one of deep blackish brown ; the tips of all but the two 
middle ones buffy white on their inner web ; bill blackish brown ; irides scarlet ; feet blackish brown in 
some specimens, and leaden brown in others. 
The figures represent an adult and a young bird of the year of the natural size. 
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