S.--Swamp Quail, or Partridge.

Synoicus Australis is a smaller bird than those just described, but the
colour of the plumage is much the same. It is generally found in marshes,
or marshy ground, and frequently in bevies.

107. SYNOICUS CHINENSIS.

This beautiful little quail is generally found in marshes, or in high
rushy ground. It is not a common bird. In size this quail is not larger
than a young guinea fowl that has just broken the shell. It has dark
plumage on the back and head--a deep purple breast and belly, and a white
horse-shoe on the upper part of the neck. The female has general dark
plumage, speckled black.

108. DROMAIUS NOVAE-HOLLANDIAE.--The Emu.

This noble bird ranges over the whole of the continent, although we did
not see any to the north of the Stony Desert. A good many were killed by
the dogs at Fort Grey. They travel many miles during a single night to
water, as was proved by a pack of thirteen coming down to the Depot Creek
to drink, that we had seen the evening before more than 12 miles to the
north. Those we saw in the distant interior did not differ from the
common emu.

109. OTIS AUSTRALASIANUS.--The Bustard.

This fine and erectly walking bird is also common over the whole of the
interior, migrating from the north in September and October. Several
flights of these birds were seen by us thus migrating southwards in
August, passing over our heads at a considerable elevation, as if they
intended to be long on the wing. I have known this Otis weigh 28lbs. Its
flesh is dark and varied in shade. The flavour is game and the meat is
tender.

110. LOBIVANELLUS LOBATUS.--The wattled Peewit.

This bird is most abundant over all south-east Australia, on plains,
marshes, and rivers, its cry and flight are very like that of our Peewit
at home, and it adopts the same stratagem to draw the fowler from its
young. It is a pretty bird, with bright yellow eye and a singular wattle
coming from the bill along the cheek. It is also remarkable for a spur on
the shoulder which it uses with much force in fighting with any crow or
hawk.

111. EDICNEMUS GRALLARIUS.--The southern stone Plover.

There are few parts in the located districts of Australia in which this
bird is not to be found. Its peculiar and melancholy cry, ran through the
silence of the desert itself, and wherever rocks occurred near water they
were also seen but not in any number. We caught a fine young bird at
Flood's Creek, but as it wa