  Drymophila trivirgata, Temm. Pl. Col. 418, fig. 1. Monarcha trivirgata, Gould in Syn. Birds of Australia, Part II. Although the Monarcha trivirgata has been known to naturalists for many years it is still a scarce bird, very few specimens occurring in any of the numerous collections sent home from Australia, which is doubtless occasioned by its true habitat not having been yet discovered. All the specimens I have seen have been procured in the Moreton Bay district of the east coast. I have never yet seen what may be considered the female of this bird; all the examples that have come under my notice being males and marked precisely alike, with the exception of one procured during the early part of Dr. Leichardt’s expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, which differs in being destitute of the rufous tint on the flanks. Forehead, throat, space round the eye, and the ears jet-black; upper surface dark grey; tail black, the three outer feathers on each side largely tipped with white; cheeks, chest and flanks rufous; abdomen and tail-coverts white; bill lead-colour; feet black. The figures are of the natural size, and represent the bird as usually seen, and also the variation in colouring above-mentioned. GERYGONE ALBOGULARIS: Gould. |
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