The adult bird lias the top 01 the head and nape rich Hue Muck; three occipital plumes white; 

 hack of neck, all upper surfaces, win^s and tails, rich nankeen or cinnamon-brown ; line under eye, chin, 

 throat, and all under surfaces, pure white, merging into pale nankeen on the sides of the neck and under-tail 

 coverts; hare space round the eve, greenish-yellow; hides, orange; hill, in some specimens, black, slightly 

 tipped with yellow, in others black with a streak of greenish-yellow along the lower mandibles, and a wash 

 of the same hue along the lower edge of the upper one; legs and feet, jonquil yellow; claws, black. 



For the first year the young have all the upper surface striated with buff and blackish brown, 

 narrow and arrow-shaped on the head and neck, broad and conspicuous on the back and wings ; primaries 

 and tail leathers dark chestnut-red, deepening into black near the extremity, and tipped with buffy white; 

 all the under surfaces buffy white with a stripe of brown down the centre of each feather ; irides, yellow. 



Habitats: Derby (N.W.A), Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, 

 Rockingham Bay, Pori Denison, Richmond and Clarence River Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and 

 South Australia, Tasmania, South Coast of New Guinea. 



