The whole of tin' plumage is brown and greyish butt', mottled and freckled, and wanning into 

 buff; the feathers of the throat, back, and breast having dark-brown lanceolate centres, which give a 

 striated appearance; wing-coverts, blackish brown, margined with greyish-white; tail, light-brown, crossed 

 with dark-brown bars; primaries, dark-brown with white stems; tip of beak, blackish-brown, base, flesh 

 Colour; legs, bluish-lead colour; bides, dark-brown. 



Habitats: Port Darwin and Port Pssington, (Julf of Carpentaria, Capo York, Rockingham Pay 

 Port Denison, W ide Pay District, Richmond and Clarence River Districts, New South Wales, Interior, 

 Victoria and South Australia. Tasmania. West and South-West Australia, New Zealand, South ("oast of 

 New Guinea. (Ramsay.) 



