1. P0DAR6US. 635 



A. B. Meyer, Sifzvngaher. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1874, p. 8 (Dorey); 



Salvad. Orn. Papuas. i. p. 517 (1880) ; A. B. Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. 



Orn. 1884, p. 278 ; Sharpe in Gould's B. Neic Guinea, iv. pi. 40 



(1888). 

 Popargus maraioratus. Grai/, P. Z. S. 1S-"J9, p. 154 (Dorey) ; Finseh, 



Neu-Guinea, p. 162 (1865); Salvad. Ibis, 1879, p. 323 (New 



Guinea) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Amtr. B. p. 2 (1888). 

 Podarg-us superciliaris, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 428 (Waigiou) ; 



Finsck, Neu-Guinea, p. 162 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l i. p. 54 (1869). 



Adult. Upper parts rufous-brown, the feathers -with very small pale 

 buff terminal and somewhat larger subterminal black spots ; a pale 

 superciliary line ; scapulars externally much lighter ; wing-coverts 

 with larger terminal whitish and subterminal blackish spots ; pri- 

 maries barred with dusky and pale rufous on the outer webs, inner 

 webs dusky, mostly with pale rufous or buff bands, sometimes very 

 distinct, often indistinct and often entirely uniform; innermost 

 secondaries similar to the scapulars ; rectrices coloured like the upper 

 parts, more or less distinctly banded with lighter and darker bars ; 

 lower parts much lighter, the feathers with blackish shaffc-stripes and 

 smaller or larger pale buff spots ; on both sides of the throat a rather 

 distinct dark line ; upper breast more boldly spotted with black. 

 Total length about 13 inches, wing 7 to 7*5, tail generally about 6*5 

 (but in a few specimens a little longer, and in one from South- 

 Eastern New Guinea fully lb inches), tarsus 0"9. 



Some specimens are entirely of a rufous coloration, while others 

 are more greyish brown, the depth of coloration varying greatly. 

 The rufous specimens are probably females, the males being browner 

 above and lighter below. 



Nestling. Entirely covered with white down, most of the lower 

 surface with dark shaft-stripes, the down of the upper surface with 

 dark brown shaft-stripes {Mus. Hothschild). 



Hah. New Guinea and adjacent islands (Jobi, Salwatti, Waigiou, 

 Aru Islands). 



a. S ad. sk. Waigiou. Wallace Coll. 



(Type of P. superciliaris, Gray.) 



b. 2 ad. sk. Aru Islands. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Salwatti. Purchased. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Dorey. Wallace Coll. 

 e-h. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts., S.E. New Mr. Goldie [C.]. 



Guinea. 



i, k. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts. (Goldie). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



I, m, n. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts. Ilnn. Hugh Eomilly 



[P.]. 



o-t. Ad. sk. Sogeri district, S.E. New H. 0. Forbes, Esq. 



Guinea. [C.j. 



u, V, w. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. C. Hunstein [C.]. 



Subsp. a. Podargus marmoratus. 



Podargus marmoratus, Gould, App. MacGillivray's T^oy. 'Battle- 

 snake,' ii. p. 356 (1859 ; Cape York) ; id. B. Austral. Suppl. 



