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freckled with grey, each feather with a broad stripe of black 

 down the centre ; shoulders dark brown ; coverts freckled 

 Avith greyish white and with a spot of white, the centre of 

 which is faAYii-colour at the tip ; primaries dark brown, 

 crossed on their outer webs with an irregular bar of white, 

 the interspaces on the outer primaries rufous ; inner webs of 

 the primaries crossed by irregular bands of freckled brown 

 and fawn-colour; tail brown, crossed by numerous broad 

 bands of freckled grey, bounded on either side by irregular 

 blotchings of black; irides orange or reddish hazel; bill 

 horn-colour. 



In the other state, to which I have alluded, the whole of 

 the upper surface is of a dark rust-red, freckled on the 

 forehead, wdng-coverts, and scapularies with white ; the bands 

 on the tail less apparent ; a rufous tint pervades the grey of 

 the under surface, and the striae are much narrower than in 

 the specimen above described. 



Sp. 45. POD ARGUS PAPUENSIS, Quoy et Gaim, 



Papuan Podargus. 

 Podargus papuensis, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de PAstrol., Ois. t. 13. 



Podargus papuensis, Gould, Birds of Australia, Supplement, pi. 



Of this fine bird several specimens were procured dming 

 the voyage of Her Majesty's Ship Rattlesnake, under the 

 command of Captain Owen Stanley, with Mr. Macgillivray 

 as Naturalist, whose names will ever hold a prominent place 

 in the annals of Australian zoology. All the specimens were 

 obtained at Cape York, the contiguity of which to New Guinea 

 induced me to believe the bird to be identical with the one 

 described and figured by MM. Quoy and Gaimard in the 

 Voyage of the Astrolabe under the name of Podargus Pa- 

 puensis ; and this belief proved to be correct on a comparison 



