3? Xj T HU XXI. 



PODARGUS CUVIERI (Vig. and Horsf.) 

 C U VIER'S PODARG US. 



CUVIER'S PODARGUS, more generally known by the name of " More-pork," inhabits Tasmania, 

 Victoria, and New South Wales. 



It does not differ from the Podargus Strigoides in general habits, but has a most peculiar 

 and altogether characteristic cry, which resembles the words "more pork," and is uttered in a most 

 mournful and persistent manner, one bird sometimes keeping it up almost without intermission for an 

 hour or more. 



When in captivity it lives — but that is about all ; as it never exhibits the least liveliness or 

 sign of intelligence. 



In the season of incubation it builds a flat nest, placed on a horizontal branch, and 

 constructed of sticks, lined with vegetable fibres. Two eggs are laid, white in colour, and an inch 

 and three-quarters long by an inch and one-quarter broad. 



The feathers of the head and back are ashy grey, each with a line of blackish-brown down the 

 centre, and with small spots of greyish-white and dark brown distributed over the surface ; wing- 

 coverts, brown, tipped with white ; other wing-feathers brown margined with white ; tail, grey, barred 

 with black, and each feather tipped with white ; under surface, reddish-grey, the webs of the feathers, 

 blackish-brown ; irides, yellow ; bill, legs, and feet, olive-brown. 



Habitats : Tasmania principally, and also Victoria and New South Wales. 



PODARGUS MARMORATUS (Gould). 



MARBLED PODARGUS. 



THIS is in many respects merely a smaller form of the Podargus Papuemis, and, like that bird, 

 is rather more graceful in contour than most of the Podargi. 



It is found on the North Coast, being most abundant about Cape York Peninsula. 



No essential differences in habits exist between it and other species of the genus. 



The male has the upper surface and wings mottled with dark brown, grey and buff, the 

 latter tint prevailing above the eye, on the scapularies, and on the tips of the wing-coverts ; on the 

 primaries the colours are in form of bars ; tail, light brownish-grey, crossed with bands of dark grey ; 

 under surface, greyish-white, with a line of dark brown down each feather ; a series of brown lines 

 is on each side of the neck ; irides, yellow ; bill and feet, olive-brown. 



The female is darker, and of a more rufous hue ; but in size and in character of the markings 

 is the same. 



Habitat : North Coast of Australia. 



