. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 104 6. SPHENURA. â Type. Sphenura, Licht Terz. Doiih/. p. 40 (182o) S. brachyptera. Dawornis, Viff. i^- Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 231 (182(3) â S. Bill and wing of Sphenura brachyptera, to show rictal bristles and proportions of primaries. Range. Confined to Australia. Key to the Sjoecies. a. Head brown. a'. Larger; wing 3'1 inches: upper siuface uni- form reddish brown hrachjptera, p. 104. v. Smaller; wing 2'.5 inches: head and back mottled with ashy-grey spots lonf/i'ro4)-is, p. 105. b. Head rufous broadbenti,
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 104 6. SPHENURA. â Type. Sphenura, Licht Terz. Doiih/. p. 40 (182o) S. brachyptera. Dawornis, Viff. i^- Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 231 (182(3) â S. Bill and wing of Sphenura brachyptera, to show rictal bristles and proportions of primaries. Range. Confined to Australia. Key to the Sjoecies. a. Head brown. a'. Larger; wing 3'1 inches: upper siuface uni- form reddish brown hrachjptera, p. 104. v. Smaller; wing 2'.5 inches: head and back mottled with ashy-grey spots lonf/i'ro4)-is, p. 105. b. Head rufous broadbenti, p. 106. 1. Sphenura brachyptera. Short-winged Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. Siippl. ii. p. 187 (1801). Turdus brachypterus, Lafh. Ind. Orn. Siippl. p. xliii (1801). Sphenura brachyptera, Licht. Verz. Douhl. p. 40 (1823); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 167 (1848); Bp. Consp. i. p. 219 (1850); Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 42 (1850); Gould, Handb. B. Amtr. i. p. 342 (1865); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 205, no. 2898 (1869) ; Bamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc.'N. S. TV. ii. p. 184 (1878). Malurus pectoralis, Sfeph. Gen. ZooL xiii. pt. ii. p. 224 (1825). Dasvornis australis, Viy. S/- Horsf. Linn. Trans, xv. p. 232 (1827); Jard. ^- Selby, III. Orn. pi. 1'i (c. 1839); Gould, B. Austr. iii. pi. 32 (1848). Adult. General colour above brown, a little more rufescent on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts also a little more rufous-brown than the back; quills brown, externally rufous- brown ; tail uniform reddish brown ; head slightly duller than the back, but lighter at the base of the forehead; lores and eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts brown, with white shaft-streaks; cheeks and under surface of body dull white, the sides of the neck, sides of breast, and flanks brown, with a few dull shaft-streaks on the latter, which are also faintly washed with reddish brown; fore neck shaded with brown; under tail-coverts and thighs reddish brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts reddish brown : quills ashy brown b
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