Order QALLIF0RME8. 
Family MEGAPODIIDjF. 
No. 7. 
LEIPOA OCELLATA. 
MALLEE FOWL. 
(Plate 7.) 
Leipoa OCELLATA Gould, P.Z.S,, p. 126 (1840), Swan River, Western Australia. 
Leipoa ocellata Gould, P.Z.S. , p. 126 (1840) ; id., B. Austr., V., PI. 78 (1848) ; id., Handb. 
B. Austr., II., p. 165 (1865) ; Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 184 (1876) ; Bennett, 
P.L.S., N.S.W., VIII., p. 193(1883) ; Campbell, Viet. Nat., I., p. 125(1884) ; Ramsay, 
Tab. List. Austr. B., p. 18 (1888) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 281 (1889). 
Megapodius {Leipoa) oceZZaiws Thienemann, Fortpflanz. ges. Vogel, pp. 12, 52, PI. XII. (1846). 
Lipoa ocellata Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXII., p. 463 (1893) ; Le Souef, Ibis, 
p. 10 (1899) ; HaU, Insect. B. Viet., p. 203 (1900) ; id., Viet. Nat., XVIII., p. 22 
(1901) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 698 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs 
Brit. Mus., I., p. 18 (1901); Milligan, Emu, II., p. 76 (1902); Carter, Emu, III., 
p. 173 (1904) ; HaU, Key B. Austr., p. 74 (1906) ; Campbell, Emu, VI., p. 197 (1907) ; 
Le Souef, Wild Life in Austr., p. 136 (1907) ; Hall, Useful B. South Austr., p. 224 
(1907) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral,, p, 6 (1908) ; Mattingley, Emu, VIII., pp. 53 
and 114 (1909) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, p. 190 (1910). 
Distribution. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia. 
Adult male. General colour above grey and rufous-brown, barred on the wings and tail 
with black and white, which gives the bird a banded appearance ; head grey, with 
dark lanceolate feathers tipped with whitish on the middle of the crown, which im- 
parts a more or less streaked appearance ; feathers of the hind-neck lead-grey, some 
of them margined with rufous-brown ; the back covered with sUky or down-like 
feathers also grey with paler tips ; mantle grey barred with black, white, and rufous- 
brown, as also the scapulars, median and greater wing-coverts ; sides of neck and lesser 
wing-coverts ashy-grey, the latter fringed with paler edgings and some of the outer 
ones showing dark shaft-streaks ; primary-coverts pale brown tipped with whitish ; 
primaries blackish, paler on the outer webs, marbled towards the ends and margined 
with white at the tips ; secondaries blackish on the inner webs, irregularly barred 
with tawny, scimitar-shaped white and black marks on the outer webs ; the long 
inner secondaries vermiculated and barred with these colours on both webs ; the 
upper tail-coverts and middle tail-feathers are similar in colour to the secondaries ; 
remainder of tail blackish tipped with white ; cheeks, chin and upper throat ferru- 
gineous ; on the lower throat a patch of black feathers which are streaked with white 
down the middle, some fringed with white at the ends and the lateral ones with white 
outer webs ; sides of breast grey, barred with black, becoming paler on the sides of 
the body, and the dark bars broader and more pronounced ; middle of abdomen and 
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