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S3. Athene maculata Vol. I. PI. S3. 
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34. Athene marmorata, Gould, 
Athene marmorata , Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part XIV. p. 18. 
All the upper surface, wings and tail dark brown, obscurely spotted 
with white round the back of the neck, on the wing-coverts and 
scapularies ; inner webs of the primaries at their base, and the inner 
webs of the lateral tail-feathers crossed by bands, which are buff 
next the shaft and white towards the extremity of the webs; face 
and chin whitish ; under surface dark brown, blotched with white 
and sandy brown ; legs and thighs fawn-colour ; bill horn-colour ; 
feet yellow. 
Inhabits South Australia, is much larger than A, maculata , but so 
nearly allied to, and so much like that species, that I have not 
thought it necessary to give a separate figure of it. 
35. Athene connivens Vol. I. PI. 34. 
Buteo connivens , Vieill, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., tom. iv. p. 481. 
36. Athene strenua, Gould Vol. I. PI. 35. 
37. Athene rufa, Gould Vol. I. PI. 36. 
Order INSESSORES. 
Family CAPRIMULGIDJE. 
Genus JEgotheles. 
The known species of this genus are two in number, both of 
which, so far as has yet been ascertained, are confined to Australia. 
In many of their actions, and in their nidification, they are very 
owl-like, depositing, like those birds, their four or five round white 
eggs in the hollows of trees, without any nest. 
38. iEgotheles Novee-Hollandige Vol. II. PI. 1. 
Inhabits the whole of the southern parts of Australia and Van 
Diemen’s Land. 
39. ./Lgotheles leucogaster, Gould Vol. II. PI. 2. 
Inhabits the northern or intertropical parts of Australia, where it 
represents the AE. Novce-Hollandice. 
Genus Podargus. 
With no one group of the Australian birds have I had so much 
difficulty in discriminating the species as the genus Podargus. It 
is almost impossible to determine with certainty the older species 
described by Latham ; could this have been done satisfactorily, even 
in a single instance, it would have greatly facilitated the investiga- 
tion of the remainder. Messrs. Vigors and Horsfield regarded the 
