WESTERN QUAIL-THRUSH

Photograph near Mount Magnet, Western Australia April 2015

575            WESTERN QUAIL-THRUSH             Cinclosoma marginatum 

Australia      (418)

18-24 cm. Found in mulga-eucalypts, other acacia scrubs, on stony ground; tea-tree/mallee/grevillia on rocky hillocks. Range far sw. NT, n. to Kintore, w. to coast at Shark Bay(WA); s. inland to c. Kalgoorlie-Ct Victorian Desert, e. to Everard Ras (SA).

SLATY-BACKED THORNBILL

Photographed on Nallan Station, Cue, Western Australia April 2015

574          SLATY-BACKED THORNBILL            Acanthiza robustirostris

Australia              (417)

Found in dense mulga,; herbage near salt lakes. 9.5 cm. Range: w. inland Aust.: from Charleville(Q), w. through s. NT, s. to Everard-Musgrave Ras. (SA); to w. coast c. Geraldton-Carnarvon, n. inland to Peak Hill-Ophthalmia R., s. to Yalgoo-Broad Arrow.