328 



I', m', (S ad. sk. 

 n'. 5 ad. sk. 

 o',p'. cJ 2 ad.sk. 

 q', r'. (S ad. ; s'. 



$ ad. sk. 

 <', «'• c? 2 ad. ; «'. 



Juv. sk. 

 ?«', x'. c? ad. sk. 



Hissar, Oct. 



Jbansie, Aug. {A. 0. H.). 

 N,W. Provinces. 

 Gwalior, July. 



Decean {Sykes). 



Khandeish. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Piuwill CoU. 

 Hume Coll. 



India Museum. 



India Museum. 



4. Eupodotis australis. 



Otis australis, J. E. Gray in Griffith^ eel. Cuvim; An. Kingd., Birds, 



iii. p. 305 (1829) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 9 (1865) ; 



Murie, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 471, pi. xxxvi. 

 Otis australasiana, Gould, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 176 ; id. B. Anstr. 



fol. vi. pi. 4 (1848); Reichenb. Vog. Neuholl. p. 236 (1850); 



Raonsay, Ibis, 1867, p. 134 (gular pouch). 

 Eupodotis australis, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 533 (1845) ; Reichenb. 



Handb., Gall. tab. cclix. figs. 2188-90 (1848) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



iii. p. 8, no. 9921 (1871) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 19 



Choriotis australis, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 416 (1856) ; Gould, Handb. B. 

 Austr. ii. p. 208 (1865) ; French, Vict. Nat. 1891, p. 11 ; North, 

 Nests 8r Eggs Austr. B. p. 296 (1889). 



Adult male. General colour like that of E. edwarclsi, but rather 

 darker and more shaded with slaty grey on the upper parts ; the 

 lower throat dull ashy white freckled with dusky vermiculations 

 in the shape of wavy cross lines on the rest of the throat and neck : 

 " bill straw-white, with olive and black culmen ; legs and feet 

 straw-yellow ; iris greenish white, eyelash pale olive-yellow " (J. 

 Gould). Total length about 48 inches, culmen 3, wing 26, tail 

 10-5, tarsus 7*2. 



Hah. Australia. 



a. c? ad. sk. 



Australia. 



Pm'chased, 



