The adult nude is black on the upper surfaces, tinged with green; upper sides of the head, buff, 

 Hocked with darker spots; a line of white runs from the base of the bill, terminating in ;i point on the 

 neck; throal rustj brown; breasi buff, flecked with darker spots 1 i 1< * • the head : under surfaces black, tinged 

 with deep blue; wings anil tail, blue-black; wing-coverts with broad marks of dull white; scapularies 

 lanceolate in form, <•! the -am.' shade as wing-coverts, The larger scapularies and the central and lateral 

 tail feathers shov< wavj outline on the outer web. The eye is prominent, irides marked with brown 

 gpecks ; up|>er mandible olive-grey, lower mandible yellow, with a patch of loose yellow skin at its base; 



lego and feel yellow, with a darker shade on the upper part of the toes. 



Length, 3G inches; hill, i inches; wing, l ■■».', inches; tail. '.) inches; tarsi, •_' inches. 



Habitats Widel) scattered over inland Australia on solitary lagoons and waterholes, and on the 



Uppel leaches of inletfl Of the sea. 



