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Title: A hand-book to the game-birds
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. (William Robert), 1863-1924
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: London : E. Lloyd
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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from the genus Turmx by possessing a smallhind toe (hallux). Only one species is known. I. THE COLLARED PLAIN-WANDERER. PEDIONOMUSTORQUATUS. Pediono7nus torquatiis^ Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 114; id. BAustr. V. pi. 80 (1848); Diggles, B. Austr. ii. pt. xv. pi.195 (1867); North, Nests and Eggs B. Austr. p. 288(1889); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 544 (1893).Pediono7niis ffiicrourus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 20.Tur7iix gouldiajia (Des Murs); Bonap. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 881 (1856). (Plate XLII.)Adult Male.—Differs from the female in having 710 rust-coloui on the nape; the collar round the neck buff z.w^ brownish, not differing so conspicuously in colour from the rest of the plumage; the upper-chest washed with bright buff. Total length, 5-8 inches; wing, 3*4; tail, 1*2; tarsus, 0*9. Adult Female.—General colour above brown, finely barredwith black ; a collar of black white-tipped feathers surroundingthe neck; nape a7id upper-part of chest rust-colour; most of PLATE XLII.
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Wyrrutn-kScMS. lU COLLARED PLAIN WANDERER. THE PLAIN WANDERERS. 291 the feathers of the top of the head, back and shoulder-feathersmargined with whitish-buff, and with the vanes free, giving theplumage a Rhea-like appearance; chin and middle of throatwhite; breast and rest of under-parts buff barred with black,except in the middle of the belly. Total length, 6*3 inches;wing, 4; tail, i*6; tarsus, i. Kange.—Australia; New South Wales, Victoria, South Aus-tralia, and the interior. Hatits.—Sir George Grey says:—These birds are migra-tory ; they appear at Adelaide in June, and disappear aboutJanuary; where they go has not yet been ascertained. Theynever fly if they can avoid so doing, and are often caught bydogs; when disturbed they crouch down and endeavour to hidethemselves in a tuft of grass. While running about they are inthe habit of raising themselves in a nearly perpendicular posi-tion on the extremities of their toes, so that the hinder partof the foot does not touch the gro

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