Order QALLIFORMES. Family MEGAP0D1IDM 
No. 47. 
ALECTURA LATH AMI. 
(P URPUREICOLLIS.) 
BRUSH TURKEY. 
(Plate 34.) 
Alectura lathami Gray, Zool. Miscell., pt. i., p. 4, 1831, Nov. 5th : Sydney, New South Wales. 
Talegallm purpureicollis Le Souef, Ibis, Jan. 1898, p. 51 : Cape York. 
Aledura lathami purpureicollis Mathews, Birds Australia, Vol. I., pt. I., p. 61, Oct. 31st, 1912. 
At the quotation given I have worked up all that was known of this sub-species. 
Having Mr. Robin Kemp coUecting for me at Cape York, I asked him to pass 
a painting made from his description of the head, wattles and feet, from 
a freshly-killed specimen. This I have had reproduced. 
This sub-species differs from typical lathami in having the skin on the 
lower neck of a different colour. The bill is black ; eyes yellowish-brown; 
feet reddish-black. The wiiole of the face, head and upper neck is crimson, 
the face duller and darker and progressively becoming brighter and more 
vivid towards the neck, until when it meets the whitish collar it is of a 
bright livid-crimson. Lower neck wiiite faintly tinged with blue and varie¬ 
gated sparsely with lemon-yellow blotches or markings, which are con¬ 
fined to the sides and front, and do not appear on the back of the 
lower neck. The loose skin or wattle is about the lower neck only, the chin and 
upper neck being tight, but showing an increasing fullness in progression 
downwards towards the lower neck. The width of the whitish band on the 
lower neck is, front 40 mm. ; sides 80; back 50. 
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