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inner, and connected with the middle toe by a pretty large 

 basal web ; the hind toe very small and elevated, with eight 

 scutella; the second with twenty-five, the third with thirty- 

 two, the fourth with thirty. The claws are small, declinate- 

 arcuate, compressed, rather blunt 



The plumage is extremely soft, on the back and wings 

 glossy. The wings when closed extend to two-twelfth? of 

 an inch from the tip of the tail, and are narrow, of twenty- 

 five quills, of which the first is longest. The tail is rather 

 short, slightly emarginate, and at the sides a little rounded. 



The bill is dusky above, reddish below ; the eyes dusky ; 

 the feet greyish-bine, tinged with green, especially on the 

 heel, or hind part of the tibio-tarsal joint, and the sole ; the 

 claws brownish-black. The upper part of the head and 

 the hind-neck are brownish-grey ; the back, scapulars, and 

 inner secondaries greenish-brown, with marginal whitish and 

 dusky spots ; the feathers of the rump white toward the 

 end ; the tail-coverts white, but most of them barred at the 

 base. The quills, primary and secondary coverts, alula, and 

 outer small coverts blackish-brown ; the shaft of the first 

 quill brown. The lower surface of the quills is a little 

 paler ; the lower coverts dusky brown, tipped and barred 

 with whitish ; as are the axillar feathers, and a few of the 

 hypochondrial. A broad Avhite band extends over the eye, 

 and a narrow dusky band along the lore. The throat is 

 greyish-white ; the cheeks and fore-neck greyish-white, 

 tinged with brown, and longitudinally streaked with dusky. 

 The breast and all the lower parts of the body, as Avell as 

 the rump, are pure white. The tail-feathers are white, all 

 excepting the outer barred with blackish-brown; the four 

 middle with three bars on both webs and a spot on the outer 

 web, the next with two bars and a spot, the next with one 

 bar and a spot, the next with only a spot, and the outermost 

 plain. 



Length to end of tail 10 T ' T ; extent of wings 17^; tail 

 2^ ; wing from flexure 5 T 8 Y ; bill along the ridge 1|-, along 

 the edge of lower mandible 1-^- ; tarsus 1 T V; first toe -^, its 

 claw T V ; second toe |4, its claw -^ ; third toe \±, its claw 

 -fa ; fourth toe -^, its claw -j^. 



