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general colour of the upper parts is chocolate-brown, or rather 

 greyish-brown, tinged with olivaceous. The feathers of the 

 head have each a central oblong white spot ; those of the hind- 

 neck are similarly marked with larger spots, some of which are 

 so disposed as to form a semicircular band ; the scapulars have 

 two or four large round spots near the end ; and some of the 

 dorsal feathers and wing-coverts have single spots on the outer 

 web. All the quills have marginal white spots on both webs ; 

 those on the inner much larger. On the tail are five series of 

 transversely elongated narrow white spots. The facial disks 

 are yellowish -white, anteriorly black, tinged with brown behind. 

 The ruff also yellowish-white, mottled with black. The chin 

 is white, the throat brown ; the general colour of the lower parts 

 yellowish-white, longitudinally streaked with brown. The 

 central part of each feather being of the latter colour ; some of 

 the posterior lateral feathers have two white spots near the end. 

 The plumage of the tarsi and toes greyish-yellow, with faint 

 transverse bars of brown. 



Length to end of tail 10^ inches ; bill along the ridge 1 ; 

 wing from flexure 6{^ ; tail 4^ ; tarsus ^§ ; hind toe j% ; its 

 claw 1^2 ; second toe j'^^, its claw ^\ ; third toe j%, its claw j% ; 

 fourth toe /g, its claw y|. 



Female. — The female is considerably larger, but precisely 

 similar in colour. 



Length to end of tail 11| inches, to end of wings lOf ; wing 

 from flexure 7i ; tail 4^ ; bill along the ridge 1 ; tarsus j^ ; 

 first toe j%, its claw /^ ; second toe ^^i its claw j\ ; third toe 

 1% , its claw ^% ; fourth toe ^% , its claw ^^^ • 



Remarks. — The description given by INIr Selby from an 

 individual killed at Morpeth, in Northumberland, in 1812, is 

 as follows : — " Bill much curved and compressed ; the culmen 

 and tip yellowish- white, the sides dark-grey. Facial disk black 

 at the posterior and anterior angles of the eye-orbits ; the rest 

 greyish-white, mixed with black. Ear-conch large, with a nar- 

 row operculum. Velvety feathers behind the auditory open- 

 ing, brownish-black. Crown, nape, and hind part of the neck, 



