Entire plumage freckled and mottled with buff, the upper surfaces being blackish brown with 

 triangular buft' spots on the edges of the feathers; shoulders, primaries and secondaries blackish brown, 

 with white shafts to the latter; tail, greyish-brown, barred with black; chin, white; under surfaces, 

 light butt": hides, black; bill, fleshy at the base, olive-brown at tip ; feet, bluish flesh-colour. 



Total length, L2 inches. 



Habitats; Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, Wide Bay District, Richmond 

 and Clan-nee River Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West and South- 

 Wesl Australia, South ("oast of New Guinea. (Ra/msay). 



