] . DROM.TIUS. 589 



//«/) Decres or Kangaroo Island, but now extinct, and only 

 known from the single stuffed specimen and the skeleton in the 

 raris Museum. 



3. Dromaeus irroratus. 



Dromaeus irroratus, Bartl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 29o (S. Australia): id. 

 Ann Sr Mag. N. H. (3) v. pp. 333-334 (1860) ; id. P. Z. S. 18G0, 

 P' o.i'^^J^/.' '!"{"*■ ^- ^- '^' ^^^^ P- 211 (Albany, W. Australia) 

 P.PaI"*^' 2^^' '^'^ ' "^- ^««- ^ Mag. N. H. (3) vi. pp 212-215 

 (1860) ; Ed. Ibi., I860, p. 310; Srlat. Trans. Zool. Soc^iv. p 360 

 pi. /6 (1862) ; Ed. Ibis, 1863, p. 285; Bmin. Zoolog. 1863, p. 8313' 

 ^^\^^-aF''-^^ 9200-9206; id. Bull. She. Imp. AccUm. 1868! 

 pp. 682-688 ; Gieb. Thes. Oni. ii. p. 59 (1875) ; Mosenth. & 

 Jiarting, Ostriches^- Ostrich Farni.^. 145(1877); Gadow, Bronn\ 

 Thier-Reichs. vi. 4, p. 104 (1893) ; A. Newt. Diet, of B. p 214 

 (pt. 1, 1893) ; Schal. J.f. O. 1894, p. 16. ^ 



''l^''?^' i^- ^"^- ^''*' P- ^^' °- 5"0 (1888) ;■ Nort/i, Descr'. Cat. 

 Nests l<f Eggs B. Austr. p. 294 (1889). 

 Dromc-eus novre hollandi3e, part., Sdat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p 555 

 specim. d, e, n' , o (1883). ' 



Similar to D. nova'. hoUandke, but is easily distinguished by its 

 spotted plumage. The feathers are barred alternately with sUky 

 white and darkish grey throughout their length, terminating in a 

 black tip margined posteriorly with rufous ; those of D. mvce hol- 

 landice are uniform greyish from the base to the extremity, which 

 18 black. On comi)aring the two living birds together we find 

 D. irroratus generally of a much more slender habit ; the tarsi are 

 longer and thinner, and the toes longer and much more slender ; the 

 tarsal scutes are smaller ; the irides are of a pale hazel instead 

 of a reddish brown as in D. nova' hoUandice. (Sclater.) Naked skin 

 round the ears and of the throat blue. 



Immature birds are decidedly darker than those of D. novce 

 hoUandia^. 



Hah, Western Australia. 



a. Ad. sk. (in- Australia. Mrs. MacCallum TP 1. 

 complete). (Type of species.) 



b. .Juv. sk. Richmond, Interior of Aus- 



tralia. 



