320 FALCO iESALON. 



dark greyish-blue, the outer feather of each spotted with white. 

 The primary quills are blackish-brown tinged with grey. The 

 outer margin of the first spotted with white, several of the rest 

 with faint bluish spots on the outer web, and all having the 

 inner web barred with white ; the secondary quills of the same 

 colour as the back, their inner webs barred with white. The 

 tail is light bluish-grey, the outer with eight, the middle with 

 six black bars, of which the last is very broad, the tips greyish- 

 white with a central black line. The throat is white ; the 

 rest of the lower parts white tinged with yellowish-red, each 

 feather with a linear brownish-black spot, the markings on the 

 neck being linear, on the breast lanceolate, on the sides broader. 

 The tibial feathers are light yellowish-red, and their dusky lines 

 are small ; those of the abdomen are without markings, and 

 the lines on the low^er tail-coverts are very slender. The lower 

 wing-coverts are variegated with reddish-brown and greyish- 

 white, the latter in roundish spots ; the lower surface of the 

 quills and tail-feathers beautifully barred with dark-grey and 

 greyish- white. 



Length to end of tail 11 inches; to end of wings 9g ; ex- 

 tent of wings 26 ; wing from flexure 85 ; tail 5^ ; bill along 

 the ridge j%, along the edge of lower mandible j% ; tarsus 1/^ ; 

 first toe j%, its claw j'^ ; second toe j%, its claw |-^g ; third 

 toe lj%, its claw j% ; fourth toe \^, its claw ^'^. 



Female. — The female, which is much larger and more robust, 

 differs considerably in colour. The third quill is one-twelfth 

 of an inch shorter than the second, which exceeds the first by 

 ten and a half twelfths. The tail is slightly rounded, the late- 

 ral feathers being nearly a quarter of an inch shorter than the 

 middle. The bill and other bare parts are coloured as in the 

 male. The general colour of the upper plumage is deep brown 

 tinged with blue, each feather having a medial black line. 

 Part of the hind-neck is yellowish-white, spotted with brown. 

 Most of the feathers on the back are in some faint degree ter- 

 minally margined with reddish ; the quills, larger coverts, and 

 alula, have a regular series of transversely oblong light red 

 spots on both webs, and are tipped with reddish -grey. The 



