fine irregular l>ars of black; tertiaries, olive-green, tinned with grey, crossed by irregular bars, and 

 numerously sprinkled with black : three outer primaries dark brown, crossed on their outer webs with broad 

 irregular patches of deep-bun" and sprinkled with grey on the inner; the remainder of the primaries and 

 secondaries grey, crossed by numerous narrow irregular lines of black, and spotted with white surrounded 

 with black ; rump and tail grey, like the secondaries, but spotted with both white and buff, each of 

 which colours are bounded with black ; breast and all under surfaces white, with a large irregular patch 

 of olive-green narrowly barred with black on each side of the chest; bill, pale green at the base, passing 

 into brownish horn-colour at the tip; hides, rather dark ha/el; legs, pale green. (dovld.) 



Habitats: Rockingham Ray, Dawson River, G.B., Richmond and Clarence River Districts, 

 New South Wales, Interior. Victoria and South Australia, West and South-West Australia. ( Iiatnsa ij.) 



