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and tail above, plumbeous, the latter with narrow bars of black ; 

 quills fuscous black ; beneath the body white ; cere and legs red ; 

 bill and claws black. 



Length 14" !)'" ; wings 8" (i'". 



Hab. Am Islands (?rr///«re). t>cry^,(KM.J 



Strigid^. 

 Athene humeralis. 



Athene humeralis, Pr. B. Consp. Av. p. 40 ; Hoinb. & Jacq..Vov. 

 au Pole Sud, t. 4. f. I . 



Jeraglaux humernlis, Kaup. 



Spii^imft^ humeralis, Sclater, Proc. L. S. 18;)8, p. l.i.). 



Rhoa^lau.v humeralis, Pr. B. 



Halj. New Grninea {Flomh. S^- Jncq.). 



Athene theomacha. 



Spiloglaux theomacha, Pr. B. Coinpt. Rend. 18;).5, |). 

 Hab. isew Guinea {Pr. Bonaparte). 



Caprimulgii)^>. 

 podargus papuensis. 



Podari/us pupuensis, Qtioy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. t. 13; Gould, 

 B. of Austr. Suppl. ii. pi. 7. 



Hab. New Guinea; Havre-Dorey {Quoij S,- Gaimard) ; P. Mari- 

 anne's Straits and Island Aidoema {Miiller). 



PODARGUS OCELLATUS. 



Podargus ocellatus, Quoy & Gaini. Voy. Astrol. t. 14. 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Havre-Dorev (Quoi/ ^- Gaimard); Aru Islands 

 {Wallace). 



Caprimulgus macrurus. 



Caprimulgus macrurus, Ilorsf. Liini. Trans, xiii. |). 142; Gould, 

 B. of Austr. ii. pi. 9 ; G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, P. 1 70. 



a. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. a'^^^y i/^k^-/ 



Macropteryx mystaceus. ^ ^ 



Cypselus mystaceus. Less. Voy. de la Coqu. t. 22. 

 Macropterijx mysfacens, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 340. 



a. New Guinea (Havre-Dorey). From the Leyden Museum. 



b, c. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. ^^1^} o^i [^'^•) 



COLLOCALIA NIDIFICA, Var. 



Collocalia nidifiea, var., G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. KS.kS, p. 171. 



Differs in being rather whiter beneath the body, especially on th« 

 throat. 



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