RASORRS, 1 1)5 



brown, mottled on 'their external edges with greyish brown ; 

 all the under surface greyish buff, each feather with numerous 

 regular somewhat arrow-shaped marks of black, and many of 

 them with a very fine line of white down the centre ; bill 

 blue, deepening into black at the tip ; irides orange ; feet dull 

 yellow. 



Total length 8| inches ; bill f ; wing 4^ ; tarsi 1|-. 



Sp. 489. SYNOiCUS SORDIDUS, Gould. 



Sombre Swamp-Quail. 

 Syndicus sordidus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part xv. p. 33. 



Synoicus sordidus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 91. 



This species differs from its congeners in the absence of 

 any variety in the markings of its plumage, in lieu of which all 

 the feathers of the upper sui'face have a broad bluish-grey 

 stripe down the middle. 



Two specimens are all that have come under my notice ; both 

 of which were received from South Australia. 



Its habits doubtless resemble those of the other members 

 of the genus, but nothing is at present known respecting 

 them. 



General plumage dark brown, minutely freckled with black, 

 each feather of the upper and under surface with a broad 

 stripe of bluish grey down the centre ; feathers of the head 

 and back of the neck with a spot of blackish brown at the tip, 

 those down the centre of the head and a few of the back- 

 feathers with white shafts ; chin buff; flank- feathers with an 

 arrow-head-shaped mark of black near the tip. 



Total length 7 inches ; bill f ; wing 3f ; tarsi f. 



Sp. 490. SYNOICUS CERVINUS, Gould. ^ 



Northern Swamp-Quail. 



As I have before remarked, the Swamp-Quails of Australia 



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