Considerable variation occurs in the colouring of individuals, the prevailing tint being a dull ashy grey, while others are of a rich chestnut hue; but whether this be indicative of immaturity, or characteristic of the fully adult plumage, I have not been able to satisfy myself. The figures represent both these styles of colouring. Lores brown, each feather tipped with mealy white, forming a line before and above the eye; feathers of the forehead mealy white, blending into the dull ashy grey of the head and back, all the feathers of which have a stripe of blackish brown down the centre, terminating in a small spot of white, and are moreover minutely freckled with greyish white and dark brown; wing-coverts chestnut, each tipped with an oval spot of white bounded posteriorly with black, forming a line across the wing; remainder of the wing brown, mottled with greyish white, arranged, particularly on the primaries, in the form of irregular bars; scapularies washed with buff and with a broad stripe of blackish brown down the centre; under surface brownish grey, minutely freckled with white, and with a narrow line of blackish brown down the centre; sides of the neck washed with chestnut; tail grey, minutely freckled with greyish white and black, assuming the form of broad irregular bands, each feather with a small spot of white at the tip; irides varying from yellow to reddish yellow and hazel; feet olive-brown. Other examples have the general tint rich chestnut-brown, with all the markings larger and more decided. The figures are of the natural size. [Illustration: PODARGUS PHALÆNOÏDES: _Gould_. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] PODARGUS PHALÆNOÏDES, _Gould_. Moth-plumaged Podargus. _Podargus Phalænoïdes_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part VII. p. 142. _Nÿ-ane?_ and _In-ner-jïn-ert_, Aborigines of the neighbourhood of Port Essington.