Museum specimen colour deterioration

["Peter Shute" <>]

"    The Tas. Native Hen may have had other dark feathers brushed over 
its white side-markings"

I went back and had another quick look just before I left this afternoon. There 
is actually a little white on it. I expected a large patch, but there were 
perhaps three feathers with a thin white stripe (bar?) across them. You 
wouldn't see them with the naked eye from more than a couple of metres away.

While on the subject of native-hens, Simpson and Day show the black taile NH as 
being present but not breeding in Tasmania. They don't look like the type of 
bird to fly across Bass Straight though.
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