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A quite young bird, not yet. fully srnwn (No. A 2088"), has on the npperside, 

 which is strongly mottled with black, some broad "l - huffy white shaft-lines and 

 is less decidedly cross-barred, the bars running together and forming irregular 

 blackish markings. Eleven females — apparently adult, but possibly not so — 

 (Nob. A2012, 2044, 2050, 2057, 2058, 2059, 2061, 2076, 2087, 2089, B 115) 

 are all much more brown above. Each feather has a white or bnffy white 

 shaft-line (not merely a white shaft), the inner web is black, sometimes quite 

 uniform, but mostly with large rufous spots or cross-markings ; sometimes 

 both webs are black with rufous markings. The outer web, however, is 

 generally brown with some blackish mottlings. The under-surface is always 

 strongly marked with somewhat harpoon-shaped cross-lines, which are broader 

 than in the males. Another specimen marked "female" (No. 105) has under- 

 neath narrow cross-lines as in the males; the upper surface is less deep and 

 more of a rusty brown, the outer webs of the feathers uniform, some with a 

 greyish tinge, the inner webs with large black cross-patches and rufous spots. 

 I suspect that this specimen is really a male. A very young bird (B 3), obtained 

 on Yule Island, 14. x. 04, has the middle of the chest and the ground-colour of 

 the abdomen bnffy white, and may possibly not belong to <S. plumbeus but to 

 another species or subspecies. Count Salvador! has considered specimens from 

 Port Moresby as belonging to S. cervinus Gould, which is said to be a northern 

 form of <S. australis, but its distinctness is doubtful. Mr. Meek describes the 

 iris of the males as dark red or yellowish, that of the females as pale yellowish 

 and dark red ; bill slaty blue with black ridge, bluish slate, or slate-colour ; feet 

 greenish yellow, sage-green, or dirty yellow. 



An egg from Owgarra (26. xii. 05) has a very thick shell with numerous 

 little pits, as if from the point of a needle, and is of a greenish buff-colour, 

 almost without gloss. It measures 32 - 5 x 25 mm. 



2. Turnix maculosus (Temm.). 



Hemipodius mncuhixiix Temminck, Pig. el GaUin. iii. pp. 361, 757 (1815 — Australia). (Cf. Nov.Zool. 

 1904. p. 177.) 



6 ? , Upper Aroa River, 6. xii. 04. (Nos. B 92, 93.) 



'' Iris pale yellowish white. Feet sage-green. Bill : 3 , greenish yellow 

 ? , greenish yellow, brownish towards the tip." 



3. Ptilinopus superbus (Temm. & Enip). 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 102. 



2 (?(?, Avera, Aroa River, 2D. i., 16. xi. 03. (Nos. A23, A236.) 

 2 6 6, Upper Aroa River, 18. i., 20. iv. 05. (Nos. B 173, 230.) 



4. Ptilinopus pulchella (Temm.). 



Cf. Nov.Zool. 1901. p. 102. 



1 (J, Bubnni, Aroa River, 23. iv. 05. (No. B244.) 



5. Ptilinopus coronulatus coronulatus Gray. 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 102. 



2 6S, Upper Aroa River, January' 1905. (Nos. B 131, 181.) 



