542 \ESTS AXD EGGS OF *U ST F ALIAS' BIKDS. 



433. — ^PoDABcrs ocellatts (snb-spedes) marmoratts. Gonld. — (47) 



MAKBLED FROGMOUTH. 



Figure. — Gonld : Birds of Anstralia, fol., sopp., pi. 4 

 Rifercnce. — Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., voL xvi., p. 635. 



Geographical Distribution. — Qaeensland. 

 Xett and Egg*. — See Appendix. 



Obterraiionf. — ^This Frogmouth has now been assigned only a sub- 

 spea&c place. The original P. r/ctUatuf appears to be confined to 

 New Guinea. Gonld, after carefully comparing examples from both 

 localities, held that they were sp^ecifically distinct. 



The Marbled Frogmouth with wedge-shaped lengthened tail is an 

 elegaiit species, and may be likened to the Papuan Frogmouth in 

 miniature. It is the- smallest of its genus. 



Gould took his descriptions of both these birds from specimens shot 

 by MacgilHvray on the Cape York Peninsula during 1848 or 1849. 

 Much difference appears to exist in the colouration of the sexes. One 

 of the larger species I examined in the collection of Mr. D. Le Souef 

 was a verv distinct rustv-red colour. 



St3-FAinLT — JECOTHELIS*. 



434. — JExKiTHELES Nov^ ROLLAXDiiE. Latham.— (38 and 39) 

 JE. IturogaMtr. Gould. 



LITTLE NIGHTJAR. 



Figttri. — Gould : Birds of Anstralia, fol., toI. ii., pis. i and 2. 



Reifraue. — Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., toI. xvi., p. 651. 



Prctrioit! DeifTif- - ■ •■ ■ ■ n...:A Birds of .\u§traHa (1848), 



als/j Ha.- :|; Thienem. Kortpfl. ges. 



Voff (iSj. Cat., p. a6, pi. 14, fig. ii 



(1S89) ; Le souei : Ibis. p. 313 (1896), also Victorian 

 Natnraliiit (1896). 



Geographical Distrif/ution. — Australia and Tasmania. 



]fe*t. — A hole or hollow spout, sittiatc from three feet to twenty 

 feet from the ground, of a tree living or dead, the usual lining br'ing 

 eucalypt leaves. 



Eggi. — Clutch, three to four, occasionally five ; roundi-h. slightly 

 compreaaed at one end ; texture, strong but fine ; surface glossy ; colour, 

 white. Dimensions in inches of a proper clutch: (1) 1-08 x -84, 



