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and tipped with white and snbterminal spot of black, those 

 surrounding the ears altogether white, and those of the inner 

 rows below the eye and round the throat also pure white, the 

 outer rows more or less tinged with buff at the tips and margined 

 with a narrow cross snbterminal baud of black, the narrow white 

 terminal line here disappearing ; all the under surface of the 

 body and tail pure white, Avith a few scattered oblong spots of 

 blackish-brown sprinkled over the sides of the chest, under wing- 

 coverts and flanks; the outer two feathers of the under wing-coverts 

 with a brownish blotch at their tip ; the quills white below, 

 freckled at their tips, and having the four blackish bands of the 

 ujDper surface showing through more conspicuously on the inner 

 webs ; upper tail-coverts and the feathers above freckled and 

 spotted like those of the back except the outer feather on either 

 side, the centre two feathers with four blackish cross bands, 

 the others with three only, their inner webs and. nearly the whole 

 of the outer two feathers on either side white, showing only 

 remains of the cross-bars ; bill light straw yellow, darker and 

 inclining to brown on the margins ; feet with a few weak bristles 

 of dark brown, claws brown, 



Hahitaf. Derby, N.W. Australia ; Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape 

 York, llockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Richmond and Clarence Eiver District. New South Wales, 

 Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West and South-^V^est 

 Australia, South Coast New Guinea. 



Measurements of average-sized specimens from different localities. 



A 1 ^ ad. sk, 

 A 2 5 ad. sk. 

 A3 — ad. sk., mntd. 

 A 4 — ad. sk. , mntd. 

 A 5 — ad. sk., mntd. 

 A 6 9 ad. sk., mntd. 

 B 1 ^ not quite ad. sk. 

 B 2 5 semi ad. sk. 

 B S j semi ad. sk. 



New South Wales, Aug., 1865. 

 Clarence River, N.S.W., May, 1866. 

 Port Denison. 

 Dubbo, N.S.W. 

 New South Wales. 

 Blayney, N.S.W. 

 Dubbo, N.S.W. 

 Concord, N.S.W., Oct. 

 Parramatta River, N.S.W. 



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