Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush (Cinclosoma castaneothorax) [XC692684]
by Marc Anderson from Paroo Darling National Park, New South Wales, Australia (song)
Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush (Cinclosoma castaneothorax) [XC329689]
by Greg McLachlan from Eulo Bore, Queensland, Australia (call)
Nest
A depression in the ground, lined with strips of bark and leaves, usually sheltered by a dead bush.
Eggs (Guide)
2 or 3; pale- to buff-grey, peppered with brown and underlying blue-grey spots; oblong-oval; about 29 x 20 mm. Incubation: by female.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Probably fed by female only.
Subspecies
Subspecies marginatum was sometimes treated within Cinnamon Quail-thrush (Cinclosoma cinnamomeum), and subspecies alisteri of Cinnamon Quail-thrush (Cinclosoma cinnamomeum) has sometimes been regarded as a subspecies of Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush (Cinclosoma castaneothorax).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
castaneothorax Gould, 1849 - Central Great Artesian Basin, in the area bounded by Forsythe Range, central Qld, in the north, Upper Barcoo, Bulloo and Paroo - Warrego River Drainages, central Qld, in the east, mulga-eucalypt line in central Darling River Basin, New South Wales in the south, and central Lake Eyre Basin, north-western New South Wales - south-western Qld in the west.
marginatum Sharpe, 1883 - Central-western Australia, from southern Pilbara and Lower Murchison Rivers, WA north to southern rim of the Great sandy and Gibson Deserts, WA, east to south-western centralian ranges, NT, and south to northern rim of the Great Victorian Desert and northern Goldfields Region, WA. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Western Quail-thrush (Cinclosoma marginatum).
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