CHESTNUT-BREASTED QUAIL-THRUSH

Adult bird hidden in the brush, photographed at Bowra, Cunnamulla, Queensland September 2015

649        CHESTNUT-BREASTED QUAIL-THRUSH           Cinclosoma castaneothorax

Australia      (491)

18-24 cm. Found in mulga-eucalypts, other acacia scrubs, on stony ground; tea tree/mallee/grevillia on rocky hillocks. Range: sw Queensland, s. to c. White Cliffs-Cobar (NSW). Western race was recently separated into Western Quail-thrush.

Young bird in the open, at Bowra

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).