Order PODARGIFORMES. Family PODARQIDM. 
No. 380. 
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MICROPODARGUS PLUMIFERUS. 
PLUMED FKOGMOUTH. 
(Plate 328.) * 
Pod ARGUS plumiperus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1845, p. 104; Brushes, Clarence 
River, New South Wales. 
Podargus plumiferus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1846, p. 104; id., Birds Austr., pt. xxv, 
(Vol. II., pi. VI.), 1846 ; Bonaparte, Ccnsp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 57, 1850 ; Gould, 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 93, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 178, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 2, 1888 ; Witmer Stone, Austral Av. 
Rec., Vol. I., p. 161, 1913. 
Podargus papuensis plumiferus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 281, 1912. 
Cyphorhina papuensis plumifera Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 143, 1913. 
Cyphorhina plumifera Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 91, 1914. 
Cyphorhina plumifera neglecta Mathews, ib., Vol. HI., p. 57, 1916 : Southern Queensland. 
Cyphorhina plumifera plumifera Mathews, ih. 
Megapodargus plumifera Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., p. 65, 1910. 
MegapodargVjS plumifera plumifera Mathews, ih. 
Megapodargus plumifera neglecta Mathews, ih. 
Distribution. Northern New South Wales ; Southern Queensland. 
Adult female (?). General colour above dark fawn-brown minutely speckled with black, 
white and isabelline, which take the form of mottled crossbars on the dight-quills 
and tail-feathers ; the feathers round the nostrils and base of the biU bristly in 
structure and black-and-white in colour ; the feathers in front of the eye tawny, 
barred with black, and those above and behind the eye cream-wliite marked with 
black bars ; the black on the head takes the form of subterminal spots with minute 
whitish tips ; most of the feathers on the back and scapulars have black shaft-lines, 
some of which terminate in pear-shaped spots ; some of the upper wing-coverts 
rather broadly tipped with cream-white hke some of the marks on the outer-webs 
of the primary-quiUs ; flight-quills blackish-brown with mottled crossbars and 
frecldings at the tips ; tail rather paler than the back, with regular mottled bars 
which become obsolete at the tips of the feathers, shafts reddish hoi’n-colour ; 
under-surface paler than above, being pale sandy-buff on the throat and upper- 
breast where the feathers are marked with dark brown — some minutely, others 
more coarsely ; sides of the body, abdomen and under tail-coverts cream-white, 
irregularly marked and mottled with dark brown ; thighs brown ; axiUaries and 
under wing-coverts ochreous, the short coverts on the edge of the wing bright 
• The plate is lettered Cyphorhina plumiferai 
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