to its on ,, wants which it now docs, feeding in company with the Dacelo in the usual manner. When I saw it 

 in the morning it was perched upon the most elevated resting place in the aviary, occasionally raising itself, 

 flapping its wings, and then quietly settling down after the manner of hawks in confinement, and presenting 

 much the appearance of a member of that tribe of birds. It comes down for food every morning, and immediately 

 returns to its elevated perch. Judging of what I saw of this specimen, I should imagine that the bird might be 

 readily tamed, and would bear confinement very well. In the young state it is destitute of the scarlet orbits so 

 conspicuous in the adult." 



• An egg taken from the ovarium, after a bird was shot, was of a light stone colour, marked all over, 

 but particularly at the larger end. with irregular blotches of reddish brown, many of which were of a darker hue, 

 and appeared as if beneath the surface of the shell. Length, one inch and eleven-sixteenths; breadth, one inch 

 and a-quarter." (G on hi. J 



The sexes do not vary in plumage, but the female is slightly smaller than the male. 



Adult plumage: Mead, throat, nape, and upper part of breast, a mixture of drab and buff , the buff 

 pre Lominating about the cheeks and forehead; back, dull brown; shoulders, wing coverts, and tertiaries, brown, 

 each feather having a triangular bull' point varying in size and shade; secondaries, brown, darker at tips; tail, 

 brown, and upper surface, each feather having a broad band of rusty black towards the tip, and then tipped with 

 ivory; under wing coverts, Ereckled warm buff , and greyish brown; lower part of breast and abdomen, greyish 

 yellow, with pale wavy markings that grow more decided on the vent; under tail surfaces, transversely barred 

 with grey, that becomes broader and rusty black towards the tip; beak, horn colour; irides, red; feet, horn 

 colour. 



Habitats: Derby. \. W.A., Porl Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, 

 Rockingham Hay. Port Dennison, Wide Bay District ; Richmond and Clarence River District (New South Wales) ; 

 Interior, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, South Coast of New Guinea. 



