LARGE EROGMOUTH. 
coverts, primary- and secondary-quills dark brown with mottled bars of 
cinnamon-brown and varied by chestnut, chiefly on the outer-webs, the mottling 
more profuse and covering nearly the whole of the feather on the secondaries ; 
tail cinnamon-brown with mottled white bars and narrow white tips to the 
feathers— the pale bars bordered more or less with blackish, which is more 
pronounced on the lateral feathers — which are rather darker than the middle 
ones ; the feathers at the base of the bill are much stiffened and those at the base 
of the forehead erectile ; sides of the fore-head and in front and below the eye 
rufous-chestnut with white tips and narrow white bars ; the short feathers 
surrounding the eye have black, hair-like tips ; lower eyelid white at the base ; 
under-surface paler than the upper-parts, particularly on the abdomen, sides of 
the body, and under tail-coverts ; throat, fore-neck, and breast have many of the 
feathers barred with white and more or less tinged with grey ; abdomen, sides of 
the body and under tail-coverts have the feathers broadly barred with white, dark 
shaft-streaks and mottlings of very pale brown ; axiUaries and under wing-coverts 
isabelline, the marginal series of the latter cinnamon-brown varied with white ; 
under-surface of quiUs pale brown with whitish mottled bars on the inner-webs, 
the pale portion on the outer-webs inclining to isabelline ; lower aspect of tail 
whitish varied with dark brown bars and mottlings, which take the form of bars and 
cinnamon-brown interspaces. Bill olive-brown, culmen brown, eyes red, feet olive- 
brown. Total length 580 mm. ; culmen 35, wing 298, tail 290, tarsus 32. Figured. 
Collected at Cape York, North Queensland, on the 8th of September, 1911. 
Adult female. Similar but browner, especially above. 
Nest. Constructed loosely of sticks. 
Eggs. Clutch, one 48-50 mm. by 33-36. 
Breeding-season. September to December (or February). 
This species was added to the Australian List by Gould in the Supplement to 
the Birds of Australia. His remarks read : “Of this fine bird several specimens 
were procured during the voyage of Her Majesty’s Ship Rattlesnake^ under 
the command of Captain Owen Stanley, with Mr. Macgillivray as Naturalist, 
whose names will ever hold a prominent place in the annals of Australian zoology. 
All the specimens were obtained at Cape York, the contiguity of which to New 
Guinea induced me to believe the bird to be identical with the one described 
and figured by MM. Quoy and Gaimard in the voyage of the Astrolabe under 
the name of Podargus papuensis ; and this belief proved to be correct on a com- 
parison of Australian examples with the New Guinea birds in the museums of 
Paris and Leyden. The P. papuensis is the largest species of the genus yet 
discovered ; the beauty of its markings and the extreme length of its' cuneate 
tail render it also one of the most graceful. The only specimen that came into 
my possession from Mr. Macgillivray for the purpose of figuring, before being 
deposited in the National Collection, was a male. This is of a light brown colour, 
beautifully marbled on the under-surface with large blotches of white. I have 
another specimen from Cape York, which is said to be the female ; and such, 
judging from its redder colouring and smaller size, I believe to be the case, for a 
similar difference exists between the sexes of P. marmoratusP 
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