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extending on each side of the shaft of the inner feathers and also 

 towards tho base of the outer webs of the inner primaries, forming 

 thereby a speculum of cinnamon-buff ; the secondaries brown, edged 

 with sandy rufous and inclining to cinnamon-buff towards the base ; 

 the long inner secondaries like the back ; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts ashy brown, with pale cinnamon-buff margins ; 



Foot of Peltohyas australis, to show the scales on both aspects of tarsus. 



tail-feathers dark brown, paler at the base and edged with sandy 

 buff, more broadly at the tips, especially of the outer ones, which 

 have whitish ends, with a sub-terminal dusky shade before the end 

 of the inner web ; crown of head sandy buff, spotted with blackish, 

 and separated from the forehead by a broad band of black, reaching 

 across from eye to eye ; forehead, lores, and feathers round the eye 

 isabelline, with a black patch below the eye extending backwards 

 on to the ear-coverts, which are otherwise vinous buff like the throat 

 and centre of the fore-neck ; round the hind-neck a black collar 

 descending on to the chest and skirting the fore-neck in the shape 

 of a triangle ; remainder of under surface sandy buff, the region of 

 the pra3-pectoral collar whitish below ; centre of breast maroon- 

 chestnut, dividing out on to the flanks ; lower abdomen, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries vinous 

 buff or pale cinnamon ; lower primary-coverts and quill-lining ashy 

 washed with pale cinnamon : " bill dark olive-brown ; feet yellowish 



