2. BunniNus. 19 



Burhinus grallarius, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xvii, Taf. 184. 

 fig. 665, Taf. 186. figs. 2442-43 (1862) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 416 

 (1856) ; Heine # Reichen Nomencl. Mm. Hein. Orn. p. 333 (1890). 



GEdicnenius australis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 212 ; id. Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 336. 



Adult. General colour above ashy grey, the crown, neck, and 

 mantle streaked with blackish stripes, much more emphasized on the 

 feathers of the back and scapulars, many of which have broad black 

 centres and tawny margins ; the lower back and rump ashy grey, 

 streaked with blackish shaft-stripes ; the upper tail-coverts similarly 

 marked, but having also some remains of bars like the tail-feathers, 

 which have narrow and irregular cross-bars, the outer ones with a 

 broad black band at tho tip, before which is a broad sub-terminal bar 

 of white ; lesser wing-coverts dark brown with tawny margins, the 

 median series dull white with broad black shaft-streaks, the greater 

 series dark ashy brown; bastard- wing, primary- coverts, and quills 

 black, the first four primaries with a broad band of white on both 

 webs, and the inner primaries with a white mark at the base ; second- 

 aries white towards the base of inner web, the innermost secondaries 

 like the back ; head ashy like the back, streaked with blackish shaft- 

 lines ; lores and a narrow eyebrow, as well as a spot below the eye, 

 white ; a band below the eye crossing the ear-coverts, black, slightly 

 washed with rufous, and extending in a line of black-streaked feathers 

 down the sides of the neck, this black line followed by a broad 

 white band stretching below the eye and losing itself in the brown 

 of the ear-coverts; cheeks reddish brown, streaked with black; 

 throat and under surface of body white, more or less tinged with 

 tawny on the lower throat, fore neck, breast, and sides of body, all 

 of which parts are streaked with black, the breast very broadly ; 

 under tail-coverts very pale cinnamon-buff; lesser under wing- 

 coverts blackish, the remainder as well as the axillaries and lower 

 primary-coverts broadly tipped with black : " bill black ; legs sickly 

 yellowish olive, gradually passing into the brown of the feet ; iris 

 yellow; eyelash black" (J. Gould). Total length 20*5 inches, 

 culmen 1*9, wing 10-5, tail 6, tarsus 4 - 6. 



Hah. Australia. Said to have occurred also in Timor-laut. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. South Australia. Capt. Sturt [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. South Australia. Seebohm Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Sydney, New South Wales. Australian Museum 



[P.]. 



/. c? ad. sk. Sydney. Seebohm Coll. 



</. ($ ad. sk. Queensland. Tweeddale Coll. 



h, i. Ad. sk. Queensland (J. T. Cockerel!). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. Ad. sk. Cape Upstart, Queensland, Voy. H.M.S. ' Fly.' 



April 1 {J. B. Jukes). 



1. 3 ad.sk. N.W. Australia (T. H. Capt. Bowyer Bower 



Bowyer Bower). [P.]. 



m. Skeleton. Purchased. 



c 2 



