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and tail above, plumbeous, the latter with narrow bars of black ; 

 quills fuscous black ; beneath the body white ; cere and legs red ; 

 bill and claws black. 



Length 14" 9'" ; wings 8" 6'". 



Hab. Aru Islands ( Wallace) . 



Strigid*. 

 Athene humeralis. 



Athene hunter alls, Pr. B. Consp. Av. p. 40 ; Homb. & Jacq. Vov. 

 auPole Sud,t. 4. f. 1. 



Jeraglaux humeralis, Kaup. 



Spiloglaux humeralis, Sclater, Proc. L. S. 1858, p. 155. 



Rhodoglaux humeralis, Pr. B. 



Hab. New Guinea {Homb. #• Jacq.). 



Athene theomacha. 



Spiloglaux theomacha, F 'r. B. Compt. Rend. 1855, p. 

 Hab. New Guinea {Pr. Bonaparte). 



Caprimulgid^b. 

 Podargus papuensis. 



Podargus papuensis, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. t. 13; Gould, 

 B. of Austr. Suppl. ii. pi. 7. 



Hab. New Guinea; Havre-Dorey {Quoy fy Oaimard) ; P. Mari- 

 anne's Straits and Island Aidoeraa {Mailer). 



Podargus ocellatus. 



Podargus ocellatus, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. t. 14. 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Havre-Dorey {Quoy fy Gaimard) ; Aru Islands 

 {Wallace). 



Caprimulgus macrurus. 



Caprimulgus macrurus, Horsf. Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 142; Gould, 

 B. of Austr. ii. pi. 9 ; G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 170. 

 a. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



Macropteryx mystaceus. 



Cypselus mystaceus, Less. Voy. de la Coqu. t. 22. 

 Macropteryx mystaceus, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 340. 



a. New Guinea (Havre-Dorey). From the Leyden Museum. 



b, c. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



COLLOCALIA NIDIFICA, Var. 



Collocalia nidifica, var., G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 171. 



Differs in being rather whiter beneath the body, especially on the 

 throat. 



