70 



OENITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS, 



may be described in detail as under. I may mention that for conveni- 

 ence I adopt Saunders's terms " mirror" and " wedge," tbe former signi- 

 fying the white suba])ical spot, the hitter meaning the gray color on the 

 webs from the base upwards. It is further to be remarked that the tips 

 are very little worn. 



First jH-imary with the tip almost wholly white, a trace of the black 

 crossbar only visible as a small spot near the edge of both webs j shaft 



Fig. 4. — First three primaries of Lariis schistisajuti. 



black in the black portion and in the white also ; a well-defined bluish 

 slate-colored wedge in the inner web reaches near the tip by about 

 twice the length of the white apex. The second primary has a small 

 apical white spot, and the " mirror " is reduced to a rounded spot in the 

 inner web close to the edge ; the gray wedge of considerably greater . 



