192 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
THE WATTLED BRUSH-TURKEYS. GENUS CATHETURUS. 
Catheturus, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 206 (1837). 
Type, C. dathami (Lath.). 
Differs from TZalega/lus in having the head as well as the 
neck almost naked, with only a few hair-like feathers ; anda 
large vascular wattle at the base of the neck. 
Nostrils vound. 
Tail composed of ezgh/een feathers, the fifth pair being con- 
siderably longer than the middle pair and much longer than 
the outer pair. 
The fore part of the legs (metatarsi) covered with a duudb/e 
row of hexagonal plates. 
I. THE AUSTRALIAN BRUSH-TURKEY.- CATHETURUS LATHAMI. 
Alectura lathamt, Latham, Gen. Hist. B. x. p. 455 (1824); 
Jardine and Selby, Ill. Orn. ii. pl. 140. 
Meleagris lindesayit, Jameson, Mem. Wernerian, Nat. Hist. 
SOC wily. 47 34(053'5). 
Catheturus australis, Swainson, Class. B. i. p. 284, fig. 92 
(o36) > 1 p. 200 1(1837)). 
Talegalla lathami, Gould, B. Austr. v. pl. 77 (1840) ; Sclater 
in Wolfs Zool. Sketches, ii. pl. xl. (1861); North, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. B. p. 279 (1889). 
Catheturus lathamit, Reichenb. Tauben. p. to, pl. 277, fig. 
1540 (1862); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 
408 (1893). 
Adult Male and Female-—General colour of upper parts dark 
brownish-black, lighter on the lower back and rump ; under- 
parts dark brownish-grey, more or less conspicuously edged 
with white ; in some examples the belly and thighs are nearly 
white. Naked skin of head and neck pinkish-red, the wattle 
bright yellow; bill black; legs brown. ‘Total length, 25°5 
inches; wing, 12; tail, 9'8-10°2; tarsus, 4-4°2. 
