It frequents the same class of country as its congeners, and like them also, is very shy. Its 

 powers of flight are very small, and are very seldom used, as it remains almost entirely on the ground, 

 and when disturbed creeps away among the scrub. 



The nest is constructed in the same way as those of the other members of the genus. The 

 eggs, three in number, are fleshy-white, with spots and streaks of reddish-brown distributed irregularly 

 over the surface, being most numerous towards the larger end. They are nine lines in length, and seven 

 lines in breadth. 



The sexes are exactly similar in plumage. 



All the upper surface, wings, and tail, dark olive, tail, tipped with white ; spurious wing feathers, 

 black, margined with white ; lores and ear-coverts, black : throat and chest, grey, spotted with black : 

 under surface, greyish-white, tinged with yellow; line above the eye, greyish-white; irides, greyish-white; 

 bill, black ; legs and feet, brown. 



Total length, 4^ inches ; bill, % inch : wing. 2^ inches ; tail, 2 inches ; tarsi, | inch. 



Habitats : South and Western Australia, and part of north coast. 



