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longer than the central pair and much longer than the outer pair, 

 producing a (^-shaped appearance when the feathers are expanded. 



Upper tail-coverts short, blackish brown. 



1st primary much shorter than the 2nd, which is about equal to 

 the 10th ; 5th and 6th the longest. 



Tarsi and feet rather large ; fore part of tarsus covered with a 

 double row of hexagonal plates. 



Range. North-east and East Australia. 



1. Catheturus lathami. 



New Holland Vulture, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. i. p. 32, pi. vi. (1821). 

 Alectura lathami, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. x. p. 455 (1824) ; J. E. Gray, 



Zool. Misc. p. 3 (1831) ; Jard. ^ Selh. HI. Orn. iii. pi. 140. 

 Meleagris lindesayii, Jameson, Mem. Wernei-ian Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. 



p. 473 (1835). 

 Catheturus australis, Swains. Class. B. i. p. 284, fig. 92 (1836), ii. 



p. 20lJ (18.37). 

 Brush Turkey, Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 77 (1840). 

 Talegalla lathami. Go7ild, P. Z. S. 1840, p. Ill; id. B. Anstr. v. 

 pi. 77 (1840J I N.S. Wales and Queenslandj : Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1860, 

 p. 426 ; Sdat. <§■ Wolf, Zool. Sket. ii. pi. xl. (18G1) ; Leycester, Ibis, 

 1861, p. 159 [Levcester's Creek, Richmoud R.]; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1869, 

 p. 628; Garrod,'P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 469, 640; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1878, 

 p. 127 [Cape York] ; Hiwt, Bvll. Soc. Acclim. (3) x. p. 611 (1883). 

 Talegallus lathami, Grai/, Gen. B. iii. p. 489, pi. 123, fig. 2 (1846); 

 id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 288, 1864, p. 42; Goidd, Hand-b. B. Anstr. 

 ii. p. 150 (1865) [Cape Howe to Port MoUe] ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, 

 p. 334 [Port Denison] ; Gray, List Gallince Brit. Miis. p. 18 

 (1867); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 254 (1870); Hutton, Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 379 [Auckland, introduced] ; Bamsay, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 116 

 [N.E. Queensland]; Schl. Notes Leyd.' Mus. i. p. \r,Q (1879; ; 

 Ramsay, Tabl. List Austr. B. p. 18 (1888) [Cape York, Rock- 

 ingham Bay, Port Deuison, Wide Bay district, Dawson R., 

 Richmond and Clarence Rs., and N. S. Wales] ; North, Nests Sr 

 Eggs Austr. B. p. 279 (1889). 

 Catheturus novje bollandias, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 876 (1856). 

 Catheturus lathami, Reichenb. Tauben, p. 10, pi. 277. fig. 1540 



(1862). 

 Tailegalla (Catheturus) lathami. Comely, Bull. Soc. Acclim. (2) 

 viii. p. 528 (1871), (3) i. p. 171 (1874), (3) ii. p. 54 (1875); St. 

 Denys, Bull. Soc. Acclim. (3) ii. p. 61 (1875), (3) iv. p. 569 

 (1877), (3) V. p. 113 (1878; ; Mairet, Bidl. Soc. Acclim. (3) v. 

 p. 176 (1878). 

 Tallegallus lathamii, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, viii. p. 79 (1880). 

 Talegallus (Catheturus) lathami, Oustal. Ann. Sci. Nat. xi. p. 27 

 (1881). 



Adult male and female. General colour of the upper parts dark 

 brownish black, lighter on the lower back, rump, and upjier tail- 

 coverts ; feathers of the underparts dark brownish grey, rather 

 widely edged with white, though in some specimens the pale 

 edgings are much less conspicuous ; belly and thighs nearly 

 white in some examples, while in others these parts are greyish 



