Order TURNIGIF0RME8 
No. 22. 
Family TVRNICIDM. 
PEDIONOMUS TORQUATUS. 
PLAIN WANDEKER. 
(Plate 20.) 
Pedionomus TORQUATUS Gould, P.Z.S., p. 114 (1840), Interior of South Australia. 
Pedionomus torquatus Gould, P.Z.S., p. 114 (1840); id., B. Austr., PI. 80 (1848), Sturt, 
Narr. Exp. Central Austr. App., p. 45 (1849) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 187 
(1865); Legge, P.Z.S., p. 236 (1869); Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 185 (1876); 
Biggies, Handb. B. Austr., II., PI. 95 (1877) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B., p. 19 
(1888); North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 288 (1889); Gadow, Rec. Austr. Mus., 
I., p. 205 (1891) ; Ogil vie -Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXII., p. 554 (1893) ; North, B. 
County Cumberland, p. 107 (1898); Keartland, B. Melb. Distr., p. 112 (1900); id., 
Viet. Nat., XVII., p. 167 (1901) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 737 (1901) ; 
Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 76 (1906); Batey, Emu, VII., p. 14 (1907); Mathews, 
Handl. B. Austral., p. 8 (1908). 
Pedionomus microurus Gould, P.Z.S., p. 20 (1842), 
Tumicigralla gouldiana Bes Murs, Rev. ZooL, p. 276 (1845). 
Turnicigralla macroura, id., ib. 
Phaps micrurus Giebel, Thes. Orn., III., p. 90 (1877). 
Bistribution. New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Australia. 
Adult female. General colour above sandy-rufous, everywhere barred and vermiculated 
with narrow hnes of black, including the head, back, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, 
tail and wings ; primary -coverts blackish with buff tips ; primary -quills sandy -buff 
at the base, becoming brown or vermiculated with brown towards the ends, the 
secondaries similar but more broadly tipped with buff ; a patch on the fore-neck 
and nuchal collar bright chestnut ; an entire collar of black and white feathers \;^ sides 
of the face and upper throat white, minutely dotted with black, former more 
or less washed with sandy -rufous ; chin and middle of abdomen wliite, breast and 
sides of body buff, barred or spotted with black like the under tail-coverts ; under 
wing-coverts white, washed with buff and more or less dotted with black ; under- 
surface of quills brown, dusted with sandy -rufous ; “ Bill yellow shading into black 
at the point; iris, straw-yellow; feet, greenish-yellow ” (J. Gould). Total length, 
170 mm. ; culmen, 16; wing, 100 ; tail, 30; tarsus, 24. 
Adult male. Bistinguished from the female by the chestnut patch on the breast, as 
well as the nuchal band being very much paler. The collar is only indicated by 
buff and white, instead of black and white. Total length, 152 mm. ; culmen, 13 ; 
wing, 83 ; tail, 30 ; tarsus, 24. 
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