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The oesophagus is three inches long, its ordinary diameter 

 two twelfths, but on the neck dilated to four twelfths. The 

 gizzard is elliptical, compressed; its greatest diameter three 

 fourths of an inch, its cuticular lining thick and rugous. The 

 intestine, which is nine inches long, has a diameter of three 

 twelfths in its duodenal portion. The coeca are two and a half 

 twelfths long, cylindrical, and adnate. 



The ujoper mandible is dark brown, excepting on the edges 

 towards the base, w^hich, with the whole lower mandible, are 

 ochre-yellow. The iris is dusky brown. The feet are ochre- 

 yellow tinged with red ; the toes dusky yellow ; the claws deep 

 brown. The general colour of the plumage above is light yel- 

 lowish-brown, on the head tinged with reddish, on the rump 

 with grey, each feather blackish-brown along the shaft towards 

 the extremity. The quills, alula, and larger w^ing-coverts are 

 dusky brown, margined with pale yellowish-brown ; the first 

 row of smaller coverts dark-brown, tipped with light yellowish- 

 brown. The cheeks are of the same colours as the upper part 

 of the head. The edges of the eyelids and a faint line over the 

 eye pale yellowish-grey, of which colour are the throat and a 

 patch under the ear-coverts. The general colour of the lower 

 parts is pale yellowish-grey, the fore part of the neck having 

 each feather tipped with a triangular spot of brownish-black ; 

 the spots being larger and darker along a line on each side of 

 the neck. On the fore part of the breast and on the sides the 

 spots are elongated and fainter. The abdomen and lower tail- 

 coverts are unmarked, but the latter are dusky on the shafts. 

 The tail-feathers are dusky brown, margined and tipped with 

 pale yellowish-grey, the outermost quill with an obscure ob- 

 lique band of pale brovm. 



Length to end of tail 7i inches ; extent of wings 13 ; bill 

 along the ridge of upper mandible 5i twelfths, along the edge 

 of lower mandible j% ; wing from flexure 4 ; tail 2| ; tarsus 

 \l ; first toe 5^ twelfths ; its claw 5^ twelfths ; second toe /j, 

 its claw 2i twelfths ; third toe i§, its claw 3^ twelfths ; fourth 

 toe /g, its claw 2i twelfths. 



Female. — The female resembles the male so closely that I 



