286 F.U.CoXIDiE. 



Tonne/. Above brown, witli margins of paler brown, especially 

 the ■wing-coverts ; quills pale brown, the outer web blackish, and 

 also the tips of the feathers, especially the secondaries ; the prima- 

 ries externally lighter brown near the base with bars of darker 

 brown, remains of which are on the inner webs, tolerably distinct 

 on the lower surface of the secondaries, the inner webs of all quills 

 below being whitish ; tail whity brown, darker brown on the mar- 

 jrins of all the feathers, which are white at immediate base and 

 crossed with two black bars, one very broad and subterminal, the 

 other narrower and crossing the tail just below the upper tail- 

 coverts ; head and neck all round whitish, the crown darker brown, 

 with which the other feathers are also narrowlj' streaked : ear- 

 coverts ashy grey, darker on the hinder margin ; under surface of 

 body white, the feathers washed with pale brown, more plainly on 

 the lower breast ; the thighs and vent-feathers entirely pale brown, 

 slightly varied with a few white margins ; under wing-coverts nearly 

 entirely white, a few of the feathers slightly spotted with brown ; 

 cere and feet pale ochre-yellow ; iris pale ochre. 



Mature. Above brown ; the feathers mostly shaded with ashy 

 grey and faintly margined with paler brown ; quills brown, the 

 primaries externally shaded with ashy grey ; the secondaries tipped 

 WT-th whitish and barred across with black and ashy grey, the sub- 

 terminal band much the broadest ; the inner web of the quills 

 whitish, with distinct though somewhat irregular remains of bars ; 

 tail whitish, shaded externally and tipped with pale brown, crossed 

 with three blackish bands, one very indistinct at the base of the 

 taO, another crossing it at about the extremity of the upper tail- 

 coverts, and the third very broad and subterminal ; head and neck 

 all round a little more ashy brown than the back, the crown slightly 

 darker, the lores and feathers under the eye whitish ; entire under 

 surface of body ashy brown, some of the feathers shaded with grey ; 

 the thighs and lower abdomen somewhat barred with white ; the 

 under tail-coverts almost entirely white, with brown cross bands ; 

 under wing-coverts pure white. 



Adult female. Differs from the foregoing in being much more 

 distinctly shaded with gi-ey both above and below, and having more 

 distinct whitish bands on the abdomen, showing also on the breast ; 

 cere and orbits orange-yellow ; bill leaden blue, yellow at base and 

 blackish at tip ; feet orange-yellow ; iris yellow. Total length 27-5 

 inches, culmcn 2, wing lG-1, tail 9-8, tarsus 3-4. 



Male. A little smaller than the female. Total length 2G inches, 

 wing 15, tail 9-5, tarsus 3. 



a. 5 ad. St. Bissao. M. Beaudouin [0.1. 



b. 2 j^^- s*- Bissao. M. Beaudouin [Cj. 



c. (S juv. sk. Bissao. R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 

 (1, e. 5 ad. St. Biver Shire. Dr. Livingstone [C.j. 



;'', ff- d 2 f>d. sk. Zambesi. Dr. Dickerson [P.]. 



h. 2 ad. sk. Piio Dando, Angola, J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [C.]. 



Jan. 28, 1809. 



