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and January, accompanied by their young, which are more 

 uniform in coloration and much duller in plumage ; they have 

 the bill black, and no light spot on the wing. 



Family PODARGID^. 



51. — PoDARGUS PAPUENSis, Quoy et Gaim., Voy. Astrol. J, p. 207, 



pi 13. (1830). 



I am not at all certain that I am not including two species 

 under this name, some agree with the figures of P. jpajpuensis, in 

 Gould's Birds of Australia; others are nearly devoid of the 

 white blotches on the wing, are of a dull colour and minutely 

 vermiculated with ashy gray ; others again are heavily blotched 

 and marked with white above and below, and have a white super- 

 ciliary stripe well defined. I find individuals so variable that 

 for the present I prefer leaving them all under the above name, 

 than making a new species. T found considerable variation also, 

 in the specimens I obtained while at Cardwell in 1873-4, scarcely 

 two being alike. The young birds do not show the spots or 

 markings plainly, being often without blotches. 



52. PODARGUS MARMORATUS, Gould. 



I am by no means sure that this species is correctly deter- 

 mined. It has koo well defined rows of white spots on the wing 

 coverts, and a subterminal spot of black on all the feathers of 

 the upper and under surface. One specimen only obtained far 

 inland on the Goldie River. 



53 — Agotheles bennettii, Salvad and D^Alb., Ann. Mus. Civic. 

 Genov., vol. VII, p. 816. 



One specimen only from Broadbent's collection, obtained on 

 the Goldie River. 



Family CAPRIMUILGID^. 



54. — Caprimulgus macrourus, Horsf. ; Salvad. and D'Alb., 

 Sharpe, op. cit. XIII, p. 493. 



One specimen obtained by Mr. Goldie ; a young bird without 

 the white blotches on the wing-quills, and two adults from Mr, 

 K. Broadbent. All from the Laloki River. 



