Order PODAROIFORMES. 
Family PODARGIDM. 
No. 379. 
mCROPODARGUS OCELLATUS. 
MARBLED FROGMOUTH. 
(Plate 327.)* 
PoDARQTTS OCELLATUS Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de I’Astrol. ZooL, Vol. I., p. 208, pi. xrv., 
1830: Dorey Harbour, Arfak Peninsula, New Guinea. 
Podargus marmoratais Gould, Birds Austr, SuppL, pi. 4, 1855 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Podargus marmoratus Gould, Birds Austr. SuppL, pi. 4, 1855 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. L, p. 94, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.) 1875, p. 581 (N.Q.) ; id., 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 178, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 2, 
1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 55, 1899 ; Le Souef, Ibis, 1899, p. 361 (N.Q.) ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austr., p. 52, 1908 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 23, 1911 
(N.Q.) ; MacgiUiwray, ih., Vol. XIII., p. 158, 1914 (N.Q.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XV., 
p. 61, 1915. 
Podargus ocellatus subsp. marmoratus Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XVI., p. 635, 
1892 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 542, 1901. 
Podargus ocellatus marmoratus Hartert, Das Tierreich, 1897, p. 4 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XVm., p. 283, 1912. 
Micropodargus ocellatus marmoratus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 143, 1913. 
Distribution. Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland. 
Adult male. Head, nape, and upper mantle dusky-brown with white tips and black 
subterminal markings to the feathers ; back and upper wing-coverts chestnut- 
brown with pale markings to the feathers ; scapulars much paler than the back, 
showing an elongated patch on each side of the back; bastard-wing, primary- 
coverts, and flight-quiUs chestnut-brown with white or smoky-white spots on 
the outer-webs and dark brown with pale mottled bars on the inner-webs of the 
primary- and secondary-quihs — ^the innermost secondaries alike on both webs ; 
tail rather paler than the back, cinnamon-brown with narrow black bars and 
whitish mottled bars and white tips to the feathers : space in front and Ander the 
eye- and ear-coverts chestnut-brown ; sides of the forehead over the eye, and sides 
of the nape whitish, like the hinder cheeks, which have dark bars ; the feathers at 
the base of the biU banded with black and white, bristly in texture, and those at 
the base of the forehead erectile ; under-surface much paler than the upper-parts ; 
chin and throat white with dark central shaft-streaks ; breast, sides of the body, 
abdomen, and under tail-coverts very similar ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 
ochreous-brown, the marginal coverts marked with dark brown; under-surface 
of quills pale brown with whitish mottled bars, outer-webs cinnamon with white 
* The plate is lettered Micropodargue marmoratiu. 
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