All the upper surface brown, speckled with greyish white and darker brown, the feathers of the crown having a blackish brown stripe down the centre terminating in a minute spot of white; wings similar to the upper surface, but lighter and with bolder black and buff spots, the coverts having an irregular spot of white and tawny on the outer web near the tip, which, as they lie over each other, form indistinct bands across the wing; primaries brownish black, with light-coloured shafts, and with a series of whitish spots on the outer webs, between which they are margined with tawny; their inner webs irregularly barred with the same; tail tawny brown, sprinkled with lighter brown, and crossed with a series of irregular bands of blackish brown, sprinkled with dusky white, each feather having a spot of brownish black near the extremity, and tipped with white; face and all the under surface greyish white, crossed by numerous narrow and irregular bars of tawny, and with a stripe of brown down the centre of each feather, the latter colour being most conspicuous and forming a kind of semilunar mark down each side of the chest; bill light brown, tinged with purple; inside of the mouth pale yellow; tongue long, transparent, and of the same colour with the inside of the mouth; irides brownish orange; feet light brownish olive. In some the rich tawny colour predominates, while others are more grey. The bird is represented of the natural size, asleep, in the position it is usually seen during the day. [Illustration: PODARGUS CUVIERI: _Vig. and Horsf._ _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _Hullmandel & Walton Imp._ ] PODARGUS CUVIERI, _Vig. and Horsf._ Cuvier’s Podargus. _Podargus Cuvieri_, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 200. _More-pork_ of the Colonists.