TODIDJE. 93 



Very dark variegated Podargus with the feathers longitudinally 

 striped with black ; the tips black ; the exterior webs of the 

 quills with five white spots ; the tail pale, slightly fasciated. 



Cold-river Goatsucker. Lath. Gen. Hist. vii. p. 3G9. 



Inhabits New Holland. Length nineteen inches : 

 beak three inches long, very stout, and hooked : plu- 

 mage dark, varied, streaked with black down the 

 shafts of the feathers, each of which is tipped with 

 black : quills marked on the outer web with five 

 white spots : tail seven inches and a half long, pale, 

 mottled, and somewhat banded, each feather ending 

 in a point, but no white spots on any of them : legs 

 short, black, the segments whitish. 



Sp. 4. Po } gracilis. 



Caprimulgus gracilis. Steph. v. x. p. 145— New Holland 1 , 

 Sp. 5. Po? Novae Hollandiee. 



Caprimulgus Novae Hollandise. Steph. v. x. 170. — New Hol- 

 land. 



FAMILY IV— TODIM:. 



Rostrum elongatum depressum, basi latissimum, apice obtusum 

 plus minusve aduncum ; rictus amplissimus ; pedes gressoriL 



Beak elongated, depressed, very broad at the base, the tip obtuse, 

 and more or less hooked ; the gape very wide ; the feet gres- 

 sorial. 



The Todidae hold a middle station between the 

 preceding and the following families : the genus Eu- 

 rylaimus being closely allied to the former, and Todus 

 to the latter. The three genera comprised in this 

 group inhabit respectively the continents of Asia, 

 Africa, and America, 



