192 Lloyd's natural history. 



THE WATTLED BRUSH-TURKEYS. GENUS CATHETURUS. 



Catheturus, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 206 (1837). 

 Type, C. lathami (Lath.). 



Differs from Talegallus in having the head as well as the 

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

 large vascular watlle at the base of the ?ieck. 



Nostrils round. 



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 djuble 

 row of hexagonal plales. 



L THE AUSTRALIAN BRUSH-TURKEY. CATHETURUS LATHAMI. 



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



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

 Meleagris lindesayii, Jameson, Mem. AVernerian, 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 »^attle 

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

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



