THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Podargus strigoides mungi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVHI., p. 283, 1912 : Mungi, 
North-west Australia ; id.. List Birds Austr., p, 142, 1913. 
Podargus strigoides dendyi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 283, 1912 : Derby, 
North-west Australia ; id., Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 56, 1912 ; id., South 
Austr. Ornith., Vol. III., p. 70, 1917 (N.W.A.). 
Podargus strigoides gouldi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 283, 1912 ; id., Austral 
Av. Rec., Vol. n., p. 79, 1913 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 142, 1913. 
Podargus strigoides melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 37, 1912 : MelviUe 
Island, Northern Territory ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 142, 1913 ; id.. Ibis, 1914, 
p. 90 ; Zietz, South Austr. Ornith., Vol. I., p. 14, 1914. 
Podargus rossi Wilson, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 32, 1912 (Vic.) ; Chandler, ib., Vol. XIIL, p. 37, 
pi. vn., 1913 (Vic.). 
Distribution. Australia ; Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper surface, including the head, back, wings and 
tail, chocolate-brown, mottled and vermiculated with cream-white, black and 
grey which assume the form of bars on the flight-quills and tail-feathers, some of 
the scapulars much paler than the back ; the white pattern coarser and more 
profuse on the head, the black pattern on the head, back, upper wing-coverts, 
scapulars, and innermost secondaries take the form of shaft-lines, many of which 
are globular or pear-shaped at the tips of the feathers which are marked with white ; 
flight-quills blackish-brown marked with white on the outer-webs, some of the 
outer ones also marked with hazel-brown, as are also some of the upper wing- 
coverts ; inner-webs of flight-quills with speckled bars and mottled with brown 
at the tips ; tail mottled with grey, brown, and black which assume the form of 
ill-defined bars ; the feathers at the nostrils and base of the bill disintegrated and 
hair-like, those on the sides of the forehead and in front of the eye rust-brown; 
hinder face and ear-coverts grey intermixed with rufous and a broad streak of 
black feathers from the gape stretching backwards along the cheeks; throat and 
breast grey intermixed with brown, with blackish shaft-streaks to the feathers ; 
throat and breast cinnamon-brown freckled with white and longitudinally streaked 
with blackish, the streaks expanding out on the sides of the breast ; abdomen, 
under tail-coverts, and sides of the body similar but more coarsely marked, which 
gives a somewhat paler appearance ; thighs blackish ; under wing-coverts similar 
to the under-surface of flight-quiUs which are greyish-brown with whitish mottled 
bars ; lower aspect of tail grey mottled with brown and pervaded with a golden 
tinge. Total length 500 ^mm. ; cuhnen 33, wing 290, tail 220, tarsus 32. 
Figured. Collected at Hunter’s Hill, near Sydney, New South Wales. 
Adult female. General colour above chestnut speckled, mottled, spotted, and streaked 
with white, grey and black ; the black occupying the middle or shaft of the feathers 
on the head, back, and wings ; on the fore-part of the head it widens out, becoming 
pear-shaped towards the pale tips ; a broad eyebrow is formed over and behind 
the eye by the silvery-grey specklings to the feathers, the black shaft-streaks are 
narrower on the hind-neck, mantle and back ; outer scapulars paler than the back ; 
the proximal lesser upper wing-coverts black, becoming dusky on the distal portion, 
median series like the back, many of the greater series speckled with white ; 
innermost secondaries cinnamon mottled with grey and brown and with dark shaft- 
lines to the feathers ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and flight-quiUs black marked 
with white and hazel-brown on the outer-webs and pale mottled bars on the 
inner-webs, the markings on the secondaries inclining to cinnamon ; rump and 
upper tail-coverts rather darker than the back ; tail cinnamon-brown with mottled 
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