1 92 Allen's naturalist's library. 



THE WATTLED BRUSH-TURKEYS. GENUS CATHETURUS. 



Cai/ief lints, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 206 (1837). 

 Type, C. lathnmi (Lath.). 



Differs from TakgaUus in having the head as well as the 

 neck almost naked, with only a few hair-like feathers ; and a 

 livge vascular ivattle at the base of the ?teck. 



Nostrils 7-ound. 



Tail composed of eighteen feathers, the fifth pair being con- 

 siderably longer than the middle pair and much longer than 

 the outer pair. 



The fore part of the legs (metatarsi) covered with a double 

 roiv of hexago?ial plates. 



I. THE AUSTRALIAN BRUSH-TURKEY. CATHETURUS LATH AMI. 



Aledura lathami, Latham, Gen. Hist. B. x. p. 455 (1824); 



Jardine and Selby, 111. Orn. iii. pi. 140. 

 Aleleagris iindesayii, Jameson, Mem. Wernerian, Nat. Hist. 



Soc. vii. p. 473 (1835). 

 Catheturus australis, Swainson, Class. B. i. p. 284, fig. 92 



(1836); ii. p. 206 (1837). 

 Talegalla lathami, Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 77 (1840); Sclater 



in Wolfs Zool. Sketches, ii. pi. xl. (1861); North, Nests 



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

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



1540(1862); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 



468 (1893). 



Adult Male and Female. — General colour of upper parts dark 

 brownish-black, lighter on the lower back and rump ; under- 

 parts dark brownish-grey, more or less conspicuously edged 

 with white ; in some examples the belly and thighs are nearly 

 while. Naked skin of head and neck pinkish-red, the \vattle 

 bright yellow; bill black; legs brown. Total length, 25*5 

 inches; wing, 12; tail, 9-8-io-2 ; tarsus, 4-4*2. 



