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the fore part of the throat and chest: it is also somewhat more 

 slender and elegant in its proportions. It first came under 

 my notice while traversing the flats near Aberdeen, on the 

 Upper Hunter, where I obtained a single example of the 

 female ; since then, however, Mr. Coxen has kindly sent me 

 examples of the opposite sex, and I have seen others in col- 

 lections from the east coast. 



The female has the crown of the head dark brown, with a 

 line of buff down the centre ; feathers surrounding the eye, 

 ear-coverts and sides of the neck extremely small, white, edged 

 with black ; back and rump dark brown, transversely rayed 

 with bars and freckles of black and buff ; wings paler, edged 

 with buff, within which is a line of black running in the same 

 direction ; primaries brown, margined with buff ; throat, chest, 

 flanks and under tail-coverts sandy red, passing into white on 

 the centre of the abdomen ; bill horn-colour ; irides straw- 

 yellow ; feet yellowish white. 



Total length 5^ inches ; bill ^ ; wing 3 ; tarsi |. 



The male has a similar character of markings on the upper 

 surface, but the colouring of his throat and flanks is much 

 paler, and he is fully a third smaller in size. 



Genus PEDIONOMUS, Gould. 



Allied to Turnix, but differing in having a small hind-toe. 

 A single species only of this curious form has yet been dis- 

 covered. 



Sp. 485. PEDIONOMUS TORQUATUS, Gould. 



Collared Plain-Wanderer. 



Pedionomus torquatus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part viii. p. 114. 



microurus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part x. p. 20. 



Turnix gouldiana, 0. des Murs. (Bonaparte). 



Pedionomus torquatus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 80. 

 The structure of this singular little bird is admirably adapted 



