3. >EGOTHELES. 651 



(1875) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 310 (1877); id. Orn. 

 Pajmas. i. p. 525 (1880) : Eanway, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 iii. p. 264 (1878), iv. pp. 88, 97 (1870) ; Shuvpe, Jouni. Linn. Soc, 

 Zool. xvi.p. 430. 



Adult. Above deep blackish brown, nearly black in freshlj- 

 moulted specimens, top of tbe head uniform, with two greyish 

 mottled portions laterally, and two mostly indistinct crescents on the 

 hinder part of head and neck ; back, rump, upper wing-coverts, and 

 upper tail-coverts mottled with irregular bars of greyish white ; 

 primaries dusky, outer webs spotted with pale brownish grey ; tail 

 dusky black, with not more than ten whitish mottled bars ; throat, 

 chin, and breast grey, indistinctly barred and mottled with blackish 

 brown, becoming more or less uniform towards the lower abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts : bill dusky, feet pale. Total length nearly 

 9 inches, wing -I'S, tail 5*4, tarsus 0-8. 



Ilab. South-eastern parts of New Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea, April. Gould Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea (Goldie). Tweeddale Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea. H. 0. Forbes, Esq. 



[C.]. 



d. e. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts. A. Goldie [C.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts. Hon. H. RomiUy [P.]. 



r/, h. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. A. Goldie [C.]. 



10. .ffigotheles novae-hoUandise. 



Caprimulgus novaj-liollandice, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 588 (1790) ; id. 



Gen. 8yn. Suppl. ii. p. 261 (1801); Step/i. Gen. Zool. x. p. 170 



(1817); Vieill. Nouv. Diet. x. p. 234; id. Enc. Meth. p. 537 



(1823); Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 265 (1831); Thienem. Forfpjfl. yes. 



Joy. pi. xhi. %. 22 (1854; eggs); Koeniy-Warth. J.f. O. 1868, 



p. 383 (nidification). 

 Banded Goatsucker, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 262, pi. 136 (1801) ; 



id. Gen. Hist. B. vii. p. 342, pi. cxv. (1823). 

 Caprimulgus vittatus, Lath. Lnd. Orn. Srippl. p. Iviii (1801) ; Steph. 



Gen. Zool. x. p. 152 (1817) ; Vieill. Nouv. Diet. x. p. 232 (1817) ; 



id. Enc. Meth. p. 545 (1823). 

 Caprimulgus cristatus, Shaio in White's Voy. p. 241, pl. 29 (1790). 

 yEgotheles cristatus, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 7 (1840). 

 .^Egotheles nov£e-hoUandise, Vig. S,- Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. Zool. 



p. 194 (1825) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 81 (1849) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 58 (1850) ; Gould, B. Austral, ii. pl. i. ; id. Handb. 



B. Austral, i. p. 79 (1865) ; Gray, Rand-l. i. p. 55 (1869); Pelz. 



This, 1873, p. 107 ; Biggies, B. Austral, p. 17, pl. 17 (1877) ; North, 



Nests ^- Egys Austral. B. pl. xiv. fig. 11 (1890). 

 Oegotheles novse-hollandiffi, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 263 (1831). 

 ^gotheles australis, Sivains. Class. B. ii. p. 338 (1837). 

 ^gotheles luuulatus, Jard. S/- Selby, Lll. Orn. pl. 149 (1839). 

 ^gotheles leucogaster, Gould, P. Z. S. 1844, p. 106 (Port Essing- 



ton) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 58 (1850) ; Gould, B. Astral, ii. pl. 2 ; id. 



Handb. B. Au-str. i. p. 81 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 55 (1869). 



Adult. Top of the head deep brown, with two longitudinal stripes 



