PACHYCEPHALA PECTORALIS, Fig. § Horgy-

Mate. Throat white, encircled by a broad band of black, which commences at the base of the bill, surrounds the
eye, passes down the sides of the neck and crosses the breast; forehead and crown dark grey, with a small
stripe of black down the centre of each feather, the remainder of the upper surface dark grey; wings and
tail blackish brown, each feather margined on the outer web with dark grey; sides of the breast and flanks
grey ; centre of the breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts orange brown ; bill and feet black.

Femate. Head and all the upper surface brownish grey ; wings and tail dark brown, margined on the exterior
webs with brownish grey ; throat dull white, gradually passing into the tawny buff which covers the whole of
the under surface, each feather of the throat and under surface having a narrow stripe of dark brown down

. the centre; bill brown ; feet black.
Total length, 62 inches ; bill, 2; wing, 32; tail, 31; tarsi, 3.

Muscicapa pectoralis, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl., p. li. No. 11.
Orange-breasted Thrush, Lewin, Birds of New Holland, pl. 8.
Pachycephala pectoralis, Vig. & Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 239. Gould, Syn. Birds of Australia.

 

 

— striata, Vig. & Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 240, female or young male?
Lanius macularius, Quoy et Gaim., Voy. del’ Astrolabe, p. 257. pl. 31. f. 1, young male ?

 

Lewin, who has figured the male of this species in his work on New Holland Birds above-quoted, informs us
that it dwells in ‘forests, frequents high trees, perching generally on the upper branches, where it sings a
loud and not unpleasant song about daybreak ;” and this is all that is at present known respecting its habits
and economy.

Upon due consideration and a careful examination of specimens I am induced to consider the Pachycephala
striata, of Messrs. Vigors and Horsfield, to be the female of this species, in which opinion I am confirmed by
the circumstance of the two birds having been repeatedly sent me from New South Wales, as male and female
of the same species; and I have also little doubt that the Pie Grieche grivelee, (Lanius macularius) of MM.
Quoy and Gaimard, will ultimately prove to be a young male, as their bird was said to be from Port Jackson.

New South Wales would appear to be the chief habitat of this species. I have never seen examples from
Van Diemen’s Land, or any other locality.