The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2 of 7

by John Gould

It may be thus described:—

Head, crescent commencing behind the eye and crossing the chest and the tail black; throat pure white; collar round the back and sides of the neck, and all the under surface very rich gamboge-yellow; upper surface rich yellowish olive; wings black, the coverts margined with yellowish olive; the primaries narrowly and the secondaries broadly margined with yellowish grey; bill and feet black; irides brown.

The figures are of the natural size.

PACHYCEPHALA PECTORALIS: (Vig. & Horsf.)
Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J. & E. Gould. Printed by C. Hullmandel.

PACHYCEPHALA PECTORALIS, Vig. and Horsf.
Banded Thick-head.

Muscicapa pectoralis, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl., p. li.—Vieill. 2nde Edit, du Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. xxi. p. 455, and Ency. Méth., 2nde Part., p. 830.

Orange-breasted Thrush, Lewin, Birds of New Holland, pl. 8.

Pachycephala pectoralis, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 239.—Gould, Syn. Birds of Australia, Part III.

—— striata, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 240, female or young male?