THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
deal different in coloration. It is a little lighter on the average, and the females 
generally show a rusty tinge on their backs. 
The mainland birds, 
Podargus strigoides phalcenoides Gould, 
are darker and larger, and maybe red females are more common at Port 
Essington: at any rate, three birds out of four in the British Museum show 
that feature. The wing measurement of the males is 232 millimetres. 
The Mungi form, 
Podargus strigoides mungi Mathews, 
is here maintained, as it is larger and darker than the birds from the North- 
west Coast, the male wing measurement being 233 millimetres. 
Of a good series of 
Podargus strigoides dendyi Mathews, 
the largest wing in the male only gives 223 millimetres, the average being 
220 mm. These are paler even than the Melville Island form, but no 
rustiness is shown in the females. 
The synonymy of the subspecies mainly centres round the typical 
form, which has ten names applicable, viz. Caprimulgus strigoides Latham, 
(7. megacephalus Latham, 0. gracilis Latham, Podargus cinereus VieiUot, 
Caprimulgus podargus Dumont, Podargus australis Stephens, P. liumeralis and 
P. stanleyanus Vigors and Horsfield, Podargus gigas Nitzsch and Caprimulgus 
crassirostris Pelzeln. When Gould introduced Podargus hrachypterus he 
proposed macrorhynchus as an equivalent and alternative name. Hartert 
observed that these might refer to similar birds whereas they were given to the 
same thing ! At the same place {Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum., 
Vol. XVI., pi. 634, footnote, 1892) he noted : “ Cf, also P. vincendoni Hombr. 
and JcLcq. Toy. Pole Sud, pi. 21, fig. I (1846).” This appears to be the only 
consideration of this name, and I have not previously seen any disposal of it. 
In the Atlas Voy. Pole Sud, Oiseaux, pi. 21, fig. 1 A, a beautiful figure is 
given of the “ Podarge de Vincendon (Nob).” No Latin name is given. In 
the text to the Voy. Pole Slid Zool., Vol. III., published in 1853, p. 92, Podargus 
vincendonii is fully described by Jacquinot and Pucheran as of Hombron and 
Jacquinot MS. The observations read : “ Cette espece est originaire de Borneo. 
Par sa coloration, elle a des rapports intimes avec le Podargus humeralis Vig. 
et Horsf., recemment figure par M. Gould ; mais elle s’en distingue par une taiUe 
moindre et par la plus grande longueur de ses ailes.” Nothing hke this figure 
is known from Borneo, and a specimen of Podargus phalcenoides Gould in the 
British Museum agrees very closely in detail and shade of coloration with the 
plate cited. I have no hesitation in deciding that the bird figured was obtained 
at Raffles Bay, North Australia, and that the locality Borneo is quite erroneous. 
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