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and with no more than a little dirty yellowish flesh-color at the base of 

 the under mandible. The frontlet, continued into the lora, and dilating 

 broadly on the auriculars, is of a darkish gray color, somewhat tinged 

 with brown : a frontal band obscurely continued over the eyes is white ; 

 there is no sincipital black band : the top of the head is grayish brown 

 down to the neck, which color unites and forms a single mass with the 

 auriculars already described : the throat to the very origin of the bill, 

 and all the under parts, are pure white, with the exception of a collar 

 on the breast, which, as a continuation of the color of the back, is of a 

 brownish gray : the white encroaches somewhat upon the middle of this 

 collar on the lower side ; and extends in a broad ring all round the 

 neck : after this collar, the whole upper parts of the body are brownish 

 gray, precisely of the same hue as the top of the head, and like it have 

 each feather slightly edged with pale. The wings are four and three- 

 quarter inches long, exactly reaching the tip of the tail, the smaller and 

 middle coverts and tertials are of the color of the body ; the larger are 

 darker, white at the tips, and they form a conspicuous band across ; the 

 spurious wing and under wing-coverts are white, somewhat mixed with 

 dingy : the quill-feathers are dark gray, blackish at their point, and on 

 their outer web : the shaft of all is white towards the middle, and the 

 secondaries have moreover a white spot along it. The tail is two and a 

 half inches long, slightly rounded : the outer and shortest feather is 

 white, with a small elongated spot towards the middle of its inner web ; 

 the second each side has a much broader and darker one extendingr on 

 both webs, dingy at base and pure white on the shaft and at tip only : 

 all the remaining ones are dusky at base, with a broad black space 

 towards the point, and are terminated with white, less pure and.less ex- 

 tended according as they are nearer to the true middle ones, which are 

 merely edged with whitish. The feet are yellowish ; the tarsus is almost 

 an inch long, and the middle toe three-quarters ; the outer is connected 

 to the second joint with the middle one by a membrane ; and the inner 

 is also connected with the middle, but no farther than the first joint. 



In the adult, well described by Wilson, the bill is orange beyond the 

 middle, black at the point : the margins of the eyelids are orange : the 

 irides are brown : the front, throat, neck broadly round, and all beneath 

 pure white : the head is of a gray color, somewhat tinged Avith reddish : 

 a broad sincipital band, and a broad ring round the base of the neck jet 

 black : lora, continued through the eye into a broad patch dilating on 

 the auriculars, blackish : the back and wing-coverts are rufo-cinereous : 

 the quills are blackish, the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth being white 

 along the shaft : the secondaries are rufo-cinereous, white at the tips : 

 the tail is blackish, and quite black towards the point ; the outer tail- 

 feather is white, the second, third and fourth being also white at their 

 tips. 



