1. PODAEGUS. 631 



a narrow blackish shaft-line ; lower wing-covorts bufFv whitish, 

 spotted with brown near the bend of the wing. Total length about 

 21 inches, wing 11 to 12, central rectrices about 12, lateral ones 

 nearly 5 inches shorter, tarsns 1-2, width of gape about 2-5 or even 

 wider. 



Adult female. The ground-colour above rusty rufous ; scapulars 

 partly uniform rufous on the outer webs ; lower surface strongly 

 shaded with rufous. Perhaps a trifle smaller than the male on 

 the average. 



Nestlinr/s are covered with whitish down. The characters of the 

 rufous and of the brown plumage are already visible in the first 

 plumage after the downy stage. 



The Museum possesses few properly sexed specimens, but Salva- 

 dori may be right in considering that the rufous specimens are 

 females. 



Hah. Papuasia and X.E. Australia, as far south as Rockingham 

 Bay. 



Dr. E. P. Eamsay considers P. plumiferus to be a distinct 

 species, but I cannot distinguish it from P. papuensis ; and if I am 

 correct, the range of the latter species must be extended to the 

 Richmond River district and to New South Wales. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Port Moresby, April 27 [Dr. Tweeddale Coll. 



0. Finsch). 



b. Ad. sk. Port Moresby, S.E. N. Guinea. K. Broadbent [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Salwatti. Wallace Coll. " 



d. e. c? ad. st. Cape York, N. Australia. Capt. Owen Stanley 



[P.]. 

 /, (J- 2 'id. sk. Cape York. Tweeddale Coll. 



h. 2 ad. sk. Cape York. Voy. H.M.S. ' Chal- 



lenger.' 

 (', k, I. Ad. sk. Cape York. Gould CoU. 



m-r. Ad. et imm. Cape York (J. T. CockereU). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



sk. 

 s-v. Ad. et imm. Somer.set, Cape York {Cocke- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. rell). 



w, X. Ad. sk. Port Albany. Mr. Coxen [C.]. 



y. 2 ad. sk. [Adelaide, S. Australia.] Adelaide Museum. 



2. Podargus strigoides *. 



Strigoid Goatsucker, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 262 (1801). 

 Caprimulgus strigoides. Lath. Ind. Orn. Bup-pl. p. Iviii (1801) : Steph. 



Gen. Zool x. p. 14.:J (1817) ; Vieill. Nouv. Diet. x. p. 232 (1817). 

 Podargus strigoides, Gould, Handb. B. Austral, i. p. 84 (1865) : 



Ramsay, Ibis, 1806, p. 326 ; id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 2 (1888) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 53 (1869) ; Xnrth. Nef>ts S^- Eggs Austral. B. 



pi. vi. fig. 3 {eg^) (1890). 



* The many names given above belong, in my opinion, to Podargus stri- 

 goides, but it is doubtful to which species of Podargus the " Wedge-tailed Goat- 

 sucker" and the " Cold-Eiver Goatsucker " of Lath. Gen. Hist. B. vii. pp. 368, 

 369, are referable. 



Latham's " Berbiee Goatsucker " (Gen. Hist. B. vii. p. 3.^9) is quite a mysterv 

 to me. 



