BY E. P. RAMSAY, F.L.S., ETC. 719 



forehead l - 2, from cere 0*7, from gape 1*15 ; culmen from base 

 of cere 1*3. 



The whole of the upper and under surface of the body, wings 

 and tail above, and the under wing and tail-coverts of a bluish- 

 slate black, slightly darker on the quills and margins of the 

 scapulars and coverts ; the under surface of the quills and tail 

 feathers bluish-ashy, except at the tips, towards the base they 

 are almost white on the inner webs of the first to fourth primary. 

 Of the tail, the outer two and the centre two are without bars, 

 the remaining feathers, as well as some of the primaries show 

 remains of blackish bars ; the basal portions of the feathers on 

 the crown, nape, and hind neck are white ; on the lower part of 

 the hind neck and on the rest of the body the bases are dusky ; 

 " irides bright yellow, bill black, cere and legs reddish-yellow." 

 (Morton.) 



Immature female. — General colour above and below light tawny 

 or pale rufous ; the tips of the feathers on the head and ear- 

 coverts blackish slate or bluish slate-black ; the base of the 

 feathers on the crown and hind neck white, lower part of the 

 hind neck rufous, each feather barred with dark brown and 

 tipped with blackish ; on the scapulars and wing-coverts the final 

 blackish bar is subterminal, each feather having a narrow rufous 

 edging ; secondaries margined and tipped with rufous, and with 

 at least twelve bars, their outer webs blackish ; primaries 

 similar but no rufous margins on the outer web, upper tail- 

 coverts barred with blackish, and margined at the tips with 

 rufous ; tail blackish-brown above, ashy-brown below, all the 

 feathers crossed with narrow black bars about twenty in number 

 from the very base to the tip, the last bar subterminal and wider 

 than the others, the inner webs of the feathers below washed 

 with rufous. All the under surface rufous, throat and under 

 tail-coverts without bars, feathers of the chest, breast, and 

 abdomen with black spots or bars, hastate, cordate, or lanceolate 

 in form, some feathers have only a lanceolate spot at the mesial 



