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wing ; the first four quills are deeply indented on their inner 

 web, the first six narrow towards their tips ; the rest become 

 more obtusely ended as the secondaries are approached. Tail 

 about 13 inches long, composed of twelve broad feathers slightly 

 narrowing to their ends and graduated, the outermost being 

 1'25 inch shorter than the middle ones.^' (In a more adult 

 specimen, procured in January 1866, from the southern moun- 

 tains, the difference is about 1'6.) " Tarsus 4-25. Middle toe 

 2*2, its claw l"! ; inner toe 1-4, its claw 1*2; outer toe 1-5, its 

 claw "8; hind toe 1*2, its claw 1*2. Tarsi covered with rather 

 large hexagonal scales, largest along shank; toes with smaller 

 imperfect hexagons, larger on upper surface, and towards their 

 tips transforming into transverse scutes. Legs dingy yellow, 

 brighter on the toes ; claws black. Bill light bluish horn-colour, 

 bluer at the base and browner towards tip of upper mandibles. 

 Cere and rictus bright yellow, paler towards and round the eye. 

 Irides bright yellow. Coronal and occipital crest-feathers white, 

 tipped with black. General plumage hair-brown, blacker on the 

 cheeks, and brighter on the underparts. Wings banded and 

 clouded with black and greyish-brown. Quills tipped with white ; 

 the wing- and tail-coverts spotted with the same. On the body 

 reflexions of purple and bronze. Tail crossed by a double bar 

 of light ochreous brown clouded with brown, narrowly tipped 

 also with same." (In the moi'e mature specimen above men- 

 tioned the narrow middle bar is the only one that remains com- 

 plete.) " Under wing banded with clouded white. Under tail 

 black, banded with clouded ochre." (The maturer bird shows 

 the one band nearly white, with white tips to the under tail ; 

 the more basal band hidden beneath the under tail-coverts is 

 nearly obsolete.) " Axillaries and lower parts yellowish-brown, 

 mottled, chiefly on the latter, with black, and ocellated, thickly 

 and more purely on the former, with white edged with black." 



" $ with a shorter and more worn bill. Has a lighter plu- 

 mage. Her wing is worn, and has fewer spots. The basal band 

 of the tail has nearly disappeared, and the central band ap- 

 proaches nearer the roots of the tail. Her under wings have 

 wider bands of white. She appears to be an older bird than the 

 male. Length 30 inches, tail 13, tarsi 4*5. 



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