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GENUS ^GOTHELES (Vig. and Horsf.) 



fJlWO members of this genus inhabit Australia. 



^EGOTHELES LEUCOGASTER (Gould). 



WHITE-BELLIED WLET- NIGHT J A R. 



THIS bird is found on the north coast of Australia, particularly in the neighbourhood of Port 

 Essington. 



It is nocturnal in habits, remaining during the day in a hole in the limb of a tree. When 

 disturbed it merely flies off to another tree, and resumes its interrupted slumbers. 



Its food consists of various kinds of insects, obtained at night. 



The sexes are alike in plumage. 



The head is brown, two crescentic marks, and a collar at the back of the head, freckled with 

 grey ; back, freckled with black and white ; wings, brown, the margins light brown, with spots of darker 

 colour ; ear coverts, white ; tail, dark brown, crossed by broad bands of reddish-buff ; breast, grey, 

 crossed by numerous bars of black ; rest of under surface, greyish- white ; irides, legs, and feet, yellowish- 

 buff; bill, black. 



Habitat : North coast of Australia. 



iEGOTHELES N0V7E-H0LLANDI.E (Vig. and Horsf.) 



OWLET NIGHTJAR. 



THE Owlet Nightjar is found in Tasmania, and all the southern part of Australia, to about the 

 latitude of Brisbane, every kind of forest country being equally frequented. 



During the day it resorts to the hollow branches of trees, but on the approach of night 

 sallies forth in quest of its never-foiling prey, the various insects, which also are most lively at 

 that time. 



