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Stkiges. 



JRemarks. — The broad white margins to the feathers on the 

 under surface beiug almost conflueut, give the appearance to the 

 feathers of having alternate brolveu bands of white and rufous- 

 brown. 



Specimens from South Australia presiunably of that variety 

 called N. marmorata,'bj Mr. Gould (see Handbook, Vol. i, p. 73), 

 are heavily blotched with white on the scapulars, which show the 

 remains of three white cross-bars in the form of large white 

 blotches separated by a narrow shaft line and alternate irregular 

 bars of brown ; on the under surface, the feathers, except at the 

 base which is fluffy and dusky, are almost altogether white, 

 having only a lanceolate or diamond-shaped shaft stripe and a 

 triangular spot of brown at the tip ; in others the flank feathers 

 show two or three irregular bars of brown on a white ground. 



Habitat. Cape York, Eockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide 

 Bay District, Dawson Eivor, Richmond and Clarence Eiver 

 District, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 

 Australia, West and South-West Australia. 



A 1 cf ad. sk. 

 A 2 2 ad. sk. 

 A 3 9 ad. sk. 

 A 4 <? ad. sk. 



A 5 2 ad. sk. 

 A 6 2 ad. sk. 

 A 7 5^ ad. sk. 

 A 8 2 ad. sk. 

 A 9 2 ad. sk. 

 A 10 <y ad. sk. 



Eastern Creek, New South Wales. 



New South Wales. 



Wide Bay, Queensland, October, 1867. 



" Mongup " Salt River, Western Australia, 



Jan., 1869. 

 Lachlan River, New South Wales, 5th Oct. , 1880. 

 Cambewarra, New Soutli Wales, Oct., 1887. 



Lachlan River, Sept. ,"l 883. 



Sydnej', New South AV tiles, June, 1876. 



Camljcwarra, New South AA'ales. 



Col. 

 Col. 

 Col. 

 Col. 



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Col. 



Col. 

 Pres. 

 Pch. 



