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head, the hind-neck, the back and scapulars, are ash-grey, each 

 feather when perfect slightly tipped with pale-brown. The 

 forehead is white, and a band of the same colour extends to a 

 considerable distance beyond the eye. From the nasal mem- 

 brane a broad band of black passes under the eye, including 

 the cheeks and auricular region. A small part of the rump 

 and the upper tail-coverts are white. The fore-neck and an- 

 terior part of the breast are of a delicate pale yellowish -brown 

 approaching to cream-colour, the throat and the rest of the 

 lower parts greyish- white. The quills, alula, and coverts, are 

 brownish-black, all more or less margined and tipped with 

 bro wnish- white ; the lower wing-coverts brownish -black, broadly 

 edged with white. The tail-feathers are white in their basal 

 portion, brownish-black at the end for nearly a fourth of their 

 length, the two middle for more than half their length. The 

 tibial feathers are blackish at the base, their edges yellowish- 

 white. 



Length to end of tail 6f inches ; extent of wings 12^ ; bill 

 along the ridge -^t,^ along the edge of lower mandible \% '■< wing 

 from flexure 3{i, tail 2| ; tarsus 1 Jj ; hind toe 4i twelfths, 

 its claw ^*2 ; second toe 4f twelfths, its claw j% ; third toe 7i 

 twelfths, its claw /„ ' fourth toe 4f twelfths, its claw /j. 



Female. — Bill deep black ; feet and claws brownish-black ; 

 iris light brown. The general colour of the upper parts is 

 light reddish-brown, intermixed with ash-grey ; the forehead 

 brown ; a brownish- white band over the eye ; and a broader 

 band of brown under it, including the ear-coverts. The fore- 

 part and sides of the neck, and the anterior part of the breast, 

 are light reddish-brown, the rest of the lower parts pale greyish- 

 brown ; the axillar feathers greyish-white, and the lower 

 wing-coverts blackish-brown, broadly edged with brownish- 

 white. The feathers of the wings are blackish-brown, edged 

 with dull reddish-brown ; the tail darker, the proximal 

 portion of each feather white in the same proportion as in the 

 male, excepting the two middle feathers, of which the shaft 

 only is white at the base. The upper tail-coverts and hind 

 part of the rump are dull white. 



