. Companion to Gould's Handbook; or, Synopsis of the birds of Australia. Containing nearly one-third of the whole, or about 220 examples, for the most part from the original drawings . maries, white; rump and two middle tail feathers, olive; the remaining feathers,white; flanks, chesnut; thighs and tarsi, purplish red; knee, purplish grey; biU, red at the base, and tipped with black; irides, dark sexes are alike. Length, 7 inches ; wing, 4i ; tail, 1\ ; bill, f ; tarsus, li ; middle toe, |. The Banded Eed-knee visits the interior of New South Wales, South Australia, and the southern
. Companion to Gould's Handbook; or, Synopsis of the birds of Australia. Containing nearly one-third of the whole, or about 220 examples, for the most part from the original drawings . maries, white; rump and two middle tail feathers, olive; the remaining feathers,white; flanks, chesnut; thighs and tarsi, purplish red; knee, purplish grey; biU, red at the base, and tipped with black; irides, dark sexes are alike. Length, 7 inches ; wing, 4i ; tail, 1\ ; bill, f ; tarsus, li ; middle toe, |. The Banded Eed-knee visits the interior of New South Wales, South Australia, and the southern parts of Queensland in thesummer season, resorting to swamps and reedy waterholes, where it feeds in company with other birds of similar habits. It is by no meanscommon anywhere. It displays much grace and agility in its movements, and is said by some to be of a tame and familiar disposition. Such,however, is not the experience of collectors in general, who assert that it is with great dif&culty they were enabled to obtain specimens. Afine specimen was shot in 1865, at Gammie Swamp, iii i\xe neighborhood of Ipswich, by Mr. .L T. Jameson. The nest and eggs are asyet ■^^_!f^^ I. OLAhEOLA ORIENTALIS Oriental Pratincole Z. O, GRALLARIA. Aiistia] IAn. P r eitm col e GLAREOLA ORIENTALIS. (Oriental Pratincole.) Crown and all the upper surface, brownish olive; primaries and secondaries, black; throat, white, surrounded by a broken ring of blackbeneath; chest, greyish olive; upper part of the abdomen, buff, fading into the white of the remainder of the under surface; central feathersof tail, black—the remainder white, each feather more or less largely terminated with black; upper tail coverts, white; under surface of wing,rust red; bill, black ; feet, blackish brown. Length, 8f inches ; wing, 7f; tail, 8^ ; bill, l^-; tarsus, li. This curious bird is not confined to Australia, its wonderful powers of flight enabling it to traverse immense distances, beingfound in India and
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