PED^WfOMUS TORQUATUS, Gould.
Collared Plain Wanderer.
Pedionomus torquatus, Go u l||^ ^ ^ ^ p ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ pG w„Septembe^8,1840.
LFitj strui tu rc o f tins singular wttiF filed' iv admirably ad; ipted for. inhabiting those extensive and arid plains
which fhjr.ictmfi’jtojpdtHMir .central .pOTtiojMgf Australia; andwve may reasonably suppose, that whenffwer
its l a s t'U tlj^ p ’hall 1......^Ijhn c d i a ^ l ^ l ^ i e s qf this S jgfprm will be discovered. ' The bird forming
J h < ^ J JJil^ufathejiirisl nr Plate w a ||r^ iv e d ,lfro iip § p Strange, whoi'merely stated that he killed it on. the
plains; ni-ar^AslcUdc. ■" l ^ l g l iw l 'f e i h ^ a t a B jfeev. that Mr. W f e o j | Adelaide, had d § § » which was
toiAUiillvT^ilOEdut/iit (^at( limgi^siu ill ipuil-likt' bird while' hunting ovir lhosi pi tins, and which is
douhili ss nil Ut^.iI-i«MPhpsiirisJ!gt4js i lecond spedes’Pobtaffii^qw.Gawler Plains was caught in. a amilar
wav .hi Jjffi^ilSnv»dogs.
, j ^ '2 h n ,'th u u d md bust ird like suited for running: whilesMESbit m m tiSaSifflB ffllSsi
swings.itfit .k^liltlc adapt! d for extensive!ffljlMpt|ie general am B S S f this ffimWanderer in fact suggests
■■the ijjSuuWy^^M.vu.lhisUinl: and i p S p s not'ftrnished’with a hind toe'Htwvbuld range very near
WihaggnjaCTmlr iM.s als’o scviral ohar^cti n'.in*jj^™5n with Hmipodtm , and a^hirdifrom Africa, figured
hi Vfr? Swainson in L^^Zrjiricj^ca.1 Illustrations "-^nder the name o f Hampodtus mvgsuSj^ui which in his
more Edeentl^gtiblisliedj' ‘-ClassifieafiQq' o&Bircfa ” he has placed in the genus Orlygis of Illiger.
I regret to say-feamyujShle to give. am M t t t o f its habits iandSeconomy; but f S 5 t ‘that my friend
• (japtup WnrrAffiiH rf td u jtlG d r the locality it inhabits, jjjdjjwhose ardent love of^NatTind History wiU
induce him;>t.9Apay,e v ^ (a ttg n ti^ to " tfi hi a g unite inform Ttign <mi these
interesting ppiufgJagraHlcli case his observations will bq inciudeddnrthe present work.
‘C row iy ilft^ P s |d reddish brown, speckled with black; side s ufj hi' hpul imhthi nu h light buff, speckled
with black i nech^iutTOu^Sl by a broadband "ot whm*“ thu hl’gispoi.ted w illi hi ick; iblftbefoper surfaee
reddirii.',hj^M%eaeh feather having several-transverse crescent-shaped' macks in the centre, and margined
with buff;' tail buff, e ra sed by numerous narrow blown li.irsWcpnicmS^Qtir'eiet rufous, the remainder iff
the under surface h u f f th e feathers on tWhreast marked m ..vsiinrjan manner to those on tlieupper surface,
find the flakks,with1 large irregular spots of black; irides straw-yellow; bill yt How, passing into black at the
point; feet greenisht'yellp.wd’
The figures are of the natural size.