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HORN EXPEDITION—AVES. 
Stictopelia cuneata^ Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., 2nd series, 
]). 1095 (1886); North, Nests and Eggs Austr. Bds., p. 279 (1889). 
A. (? ad. sk., Finke River. 
B. ? innn. sk., Heavitree Gap. 
Two examples. The female, which is immature, has many of the feathers on 
the crowji of the head and nape crossed with dusky black and tipped with pale 
brown, and the innermost secondaries, scapulars, and wing-coverts narrowly edged 
with light grey. 
[These lovely little Doves were found all along the Finke River, and were 
particularly plentiful at Deering Creek, Darwent Creek, Reedy Hole and 
Heavitree Gap. During warm days they were found sheltering themselves 
beneath any shady bush, but in cool weather and in the morning and evening were 
seen in large numbers feeding on the ground or drinking at the waterholes. 
IMany nests containing young were found and appreciated by our blacks as good 
food. The sites selected for breeding were generally the debris in the low shrubs 
near water, where the birds either hollowed the surface slightly or added a few 
pieces of grass to keep the eggs from rolling oil’.] 
No. 72. Turnix leucogaster, North. White-bellied Turnix. 
Turnix leucogaster, North, Ibis, 1895, p. 342. 
Aduit female .—General colour above chestnut-brown, each feather being 
more or less broadly margined with bully white ] bases of the feathers on the top 
of the head black, their inner webs whitish, forming a conspicuous stripe down 
the centre of the head ; nape and hind-neck pale chestnut brown, each feather being 
submarginally edged on either side with a narrow line of black ; scapulars, back, 
rumj), upper tail-coverts and tail more distinctly lined with black and having three 
or more irregularly shaped cross-bars on each feather, the scapulars being broadly 
margined with bully-white and having a spot of ochraceous-brown near the tips; 
primai'ies, secondaries and primary-coverts blackish-grey; outer web of the first 
primary and edge of the wing white, the remainder narrowly edged with bull', also 
the tips of outer webs of secondaries and inner webs and tips of primary-coverts ; 
tertiaries like the scapulars, but having three irregular-shaped white spots on the 
outer webs of the two longest feathers; remainder of the wing-coverts light red, 
broadly edged with pale buff and marbled with black near their tips, the lesser 
coverts slightly duller and more broadly tipped with black; lores and superciliary 
stripes white tipped with pale chestnut; feathers below the eye, sides of the face 
