Podargus ocellatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1830

Plumage coloration variable; some accounts refer to distinct colour morphs, but variation in coloration appears to be continuous between the extremes. General colour of male´s upperparts ranges from dull grey- brown (often with intricate marbling and streaking) to deep rufous (often with very little marbling and few dark spots and streaks); underparts also variable, but most often with irregular whitish barring and longitudinal streaks of dark brown and blackish. Distinguished from P. strigoides most reliably by longer tail and different vocalizations; P. papuensis is much larger with different song. Female often darker than male, but not always separable. Juvenile not well described, but reported as rufous- brown, faintly barred white and tipped dusky on head and underparts, faintly barred dusky on back and mantle. Races differ mostly in size and details of coloration; inexpectatus is the most distinctive, with finer dark markings on upperparts and clear white spots on wing- coverts.