Note on a Tasmanian "Acanthiza"

Last December, when visiting an out-of-the-way settlement on the Elephant Hill, near St. Mary's, situated about 1,500 feet above sea level, I met with a solitary bird hopping about the scrub and bushes, on the edge of a clearing, and being attracted by its peculiar note, I procured it, having by chance my gun with me. It proved to be a small Acanthiza, very similar to the common " Brown tail' or Tasmanian Acanthiza, but differing in having the forehead pale rufescent grey, instead of rufous, and the throat and foreneck with the markings much less pronounced than in the last-named species , in fact the colouration of that part is almost uniform, the centres of the feathers being also slightly darker than the rest of the web. At the base of the outer webs of the primaries there is a narrow rufous band, similar to that shown in Gould's figure, which, however, has the markings of the throat more pronounced than in my specimen, owing to the absence of throat markings.