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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" 9'"; wings 8! 6!". 
Hab. Aru Islands (Wallace). 
STRIGID&. 
ATHENE HUMERALIS. 
Athene humeralis, Pr. B. Consp. Av. p. 40; Homb. & Jacq. Voy. 
au Pole Sud, t. 4. f. 1. 
Jeraglaux humeralis, Kaup. 
Spiloglaux humeralis, Sclater, Proc. L. S. 1858, p. i595. 
Rhodoglaux humeralis, Pr. B. 
Hab. New Guinea (Homb. §& Jacq.). 
ATHENE THEOMACBA. 
Spiloglaux theomacha, Pr. B. Compt. Rend. 1855, p. 
Hab. New Guinea (Pr. Bonaparte). 
CAPRIMULGID. 
PODARGUS PAPUENSIS. 
Podargus papuensis, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. t. 13; Gould, 
B. of Austr. Suppl. i. pl. 7. 
Hab. New Guinea; Havre-Dorey (Quoy § Gaimard) ; P. Mari- 
anne’s Straits and Island Aidoema ( Miller). 
PoDARGUS OCELLATUS. 
Podargus ocellatus, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. t. 14. 
Hab. New Guinea ; Havre-Dorey (Quoy § Gaimard); Aru Islands 
(Wallace). P 
_CAPRIMULGUS MACRURUS. 
Caprimulgus macrurus, Horsf. Linn. Trans. xiii. p. 142; Gould, 
B. of Austr. ii. pl. 9; G.R. Gray, Proc. Z. 8. 1858, p. 170. 
a. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 
MACROPTERYX MYSTACEUS. 
Cypselus mystaceus, Less. Voy. de la Coqu. t. 22. 
Macropteryx mystaceus, Swains. Classif. of B. i. p. 340. 
a. New Guinea (Havre-Dorey). From the Leyden Museum. 
6,c. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 
CoLLOCALIA NIDIFICA, var. 
Collocalia nidifica, var.,G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. 8. 1858, p. 171. 
Differs in being rather whiter beneath the body, especially on the 
throat. 
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