Order PODARQIFORMES. 
No. 381. 
Family PODAROIDM. 
MEGAPODAEGUS PAPUENSIS. 
LARGE FROGMOUTH. 
(Plate 329.) 
PoDAEGUS PAPIJBNSIS Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de I’Astrol. ZooL, Vol. I., p. 207, 1830 : 
Dorey Harbour, Arfak Peninsula, New Guinea. 
Podargus papuensis baileyi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 281, 1912 : Cairns, 
Queensland. 
Podargus papuensis Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. 3, 1855 (Cape York) ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 91, 1865 ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 46, 
1875 (N.Q.) ; Eamsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 580 (N.Q.) ; id., Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 178, 1878 ; Forbes, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1878, 
p. 121 (N.Q.) ; Eamsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 2, 1888 ; Hartert, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XVI., p. 630, 1892 (pt.) ; Le Souef, Ibis, 1896, p. 312 (N.Q.) ; 
Hall, Key Birds* Austr., p. 55, 1899 ; Eobinson and Laverock, Ibis, 1900, p. 637 
(N.Q.) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 538, 1901 ; Bemey, 
Emu, Vol. VI., p. 43, 1906 (N.Q.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austr., p. 52, 1908 ; 
Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. X., pp. 217-231, 1910 (N.Q.) ; Broadbent, ih., p. 234 
(N.Q.); Barnard, ih., Vol. XI., p. 23, 1911 (N.Q.); Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., 
p. 158, 1914 (N.Q.). 
Podargus papuensis baileyi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 281, 1912 : Cairns, 
N. Queensland. 
Podargus papuensis rogersi Mathews, ib. : Cape York, North Queensland. 
Cyphorhina papuensis baileyi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 143, 1913. 
Megapodargus papuensis baileyi Mathews, Austral Av. Eec., Vol. III., p. 65, 1916. 
Megapodargus papuensis rogersi Mathews, ib. 
DiSTRiBUTioisr. North Queensland. 
Adult male. General colour above and below cinnamon-brown varied by dark brown 
and dull white, or smoky-white mottlings. The dark pattern of the feathers on 
the head, back, scapulars, upper wing-coverts, most of the primary- and secondary- 
quiUs — ^towards the tips — ^throat, breast, abdomen, sides of the body and under tail- 
coverts take the form of shaft-line streaks and usually followed by pale or whitish 
tips to the feathers. The pale or whitish pattern is more pronounced on the 
scapulars, where it forms an elongated patch, and on the imiermost secondaries 
irregular mottled bars; some of the me^an and greater upper wing-coverts have 
large white (or slightly mottled) oval spots which are bordered with blackish on 
the upper side and the inner side adjoining the shaft ; bastard-wing, primary- 
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