290 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Nest. — Slightly constructed of grasses placed in a shallow 

 depression of the ground, under the shelter of a small tuft ol 

 grass. {Gould.) 



Fggs. — Four in number ; broad ovals ; of a dirty white, 

 either finely freckled all over or thickly blotched with mark- 

 ings of reddish-brown, light brown, and slate-grey. Measure- 

 ments, 0-95 by 075 inch. 



THE TLAIN-WANDERERS. GENUS PEDIONOMUS. 



Fediotiomiis^ Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 114. 



Type, P. torquatus, Gould. 



Distinguished from the genus Turm'x by possessing a small 

 hind toe (hallux). 



Only one species is known. 



I. THE COLLARED PLAIN-WANDERER. PEDIONOMUS 

 TORQUATUS. 



Pediono7nus torquatiis^ Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 114; id. B 

 Austr. V. pi. 80 (1848); Diggles, B. Austr. ii. pt. xv. pi. 

 195 (1867); North, Nests and Eggs B. Austr. p. 288 

 (1889); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 544 



(1893). 

 Pediono7niis ffiicrourus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 20. 

 Tur7iix gouldiajia (Des Murs) ; Bonap. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 



881 (1856). 



{Plate XLII.) 

 Adult Male. — Differs from the female in having 710 rust-coloui 



on the nape; the collar round the neck buff z.w^ brownish, not 



differing so conspicuously in colour from the rest of the 



plumage ; the upper-chest washed with bright buff. Total 



length, 5-8 inches; wing, 3*4; tail, 1*2; tarsus, 0*9. 



Adult Female.— General colour above brown, finely barred 

 with black ; a collar of black white-tipped feathers surrounding 

 the neck ; nape a7id upper-part of chest rust-colour ; most of 



