1875.] BIRDS FROM QUEENSLAND. 581 
26. PopARGUS PHALZNOIDES. 
One specimen only procured ; it is looked on as a very rare bird at 
Cardwell. 
27. PopDARGUS MARMORATUS. 
One specimen only shot, at Salt-water Creek, near Cardwell. 
28. EuRosTOPODUS GUTTATUS. 
Plentiful at times ; several specimens were obtained. They fly 
low over the clearings and grassy flats for about an hour at dusk. 
Its single egg is laid on the ground without any preparation for it, 
usually near some stone or stump on the side of a stony ridge; the 
ground-colour is of light-greenish, creamy white, sparingly marked 
all over with dots and oval spots of blackish and slaty brown, a few 
appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. Length 1°38 by 1 
inch in breadth, both ends nearly equal. 
29. EvRosTorpoDUS ALBOGULARIS. 
I shot several of this species on the Mary river, but only obtained 
one specimen from the Cardwell district. The egg resembles that of 
E. guttatus, without the greenish tinge on the ground-colour, which 
is of a rich, light cream-colour, spotted sparingly all over with round 
dots and oval-shaped marks of black, blackish brown, and slaty black, 
which latter appear beneath the surface of the shell; length from 1°41 
to 1°5 inch, breadth from 1:03 to 1°03, equal at both ends. 
I found this species breeding both at Brisbane and on the Mary 
river. My brother, James Ramsay, Esq., of Nanama, forwarded to 
me authentic eggs from the Merule in the Riverina district of New 
South Wales. 
I take the present opportunity of correcting a mistake respecting 
the egg of this species that [ described as such in the list of birds 
from Port Denison (P. Z.S. 1875, p. 113); it evidently belonged to 
the following bird (Caprimulgus macrurus). Rainbird, who was not 
aware of the generic difference between the two birds, sent me a 
Eurostopodus instead of a Caprimulgus, the great similarity in the 
plumage of these two Australian species evidently misled him. 
30. CAPRIMULGUS MACRURUS. 
This species is plentiful near Cardwell ; many specimens were pro- 
cured. I am indebted to Inspector Robert Johnstone for a fine pair 
of their eggs ; they were found on the ground on the side of a ridge 
near the Herbert river, and are of a light rich cream-colour, fading 
to whitish after being emptied, clouded all over with fleecy markings 
of pale slaty lilac, which appear beneath the surface of the shell ; 
length 1:1 by ‘81 inch in breadth. 
31. CH&TURA CAUDACUTA. 
Met with on the plains inland and flying over the extensive grass 
beds on the lower Herbert. 
