Tlx- egg is pear shaped, with a rounded apex, (he smaller end Dipping sharply off. Tlx- colour 

 a rich buff-stone, inediunily daubed and blotched with rich umber and reddish-brown : the usual number 

 (•(' purplish grey markings appear under the shell's surface. In other specimens the ground colour has a 

 faint greenish tinge, with the markings less numerous and more speckled in form. Length, 2 inches ; breadth, 

 I inch 4 lines. (./. .1. Campbell.) 



One of the most graceful birds it is possible to imagine, upstanding and easy in its motions, it 

 trips over the ground with a peculiar lightness, and adds not a little to the beauty of the landscape. 



The sexes are quite indistinguishable from each other. 



Face and all under surfaces, pure white, the sides of the breast streaked with dark brown ; tail, 

 margined and freckled with blackish-brown : shoulders and primaries, very dark brown, the outer quill having 

 a pure white shaft ; the remainder of the upper surface, light brown, margined, striated, and mottled with 

 grey ; bill, dark olive ; ii ides, black : feet and legs, deep olive-green. (Gould.) 



Habitats: Port Darwin and Port Essington, Grulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, 

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

 Victoria and Smith Australia. 



