]56 Mr. J. H. Guriiey's Notes on 



April. In this bird the coloration of the upper surface is very- 

 similar to that of No. 2, but is rather darker, owing to the 

 appearance on the back of several new feathers of a deep 

 purplish brown, with narrow and inconspicuous pale broAvn 

 tips. The primaries and secondaries resemble those of No. 2 ; 

 but some of the secondaries are transversely marked on the 

 inner web as in No. 1. The tail is dark brown, with a very 

 narrow paler tip, but with no signs of transverse bars, except 

 some extremely indistinct indications of such markings on 

 the two outermost rectrices on one side of the tail only. The 

 wing-linings and axillaries resemble in coloration and mark- 

 ings those of No. 1 ; the remaining underparts are like those 

 of No. 2, with the following exceptions : viz. the feathers of 

 the upper breast are decidedly browner, and their shaft-marks 

 are darker and more conspicuous ; on the lower breast the 

 feathers appear to be new, with pure white bases comprising 

 the greater part of the feather, the remainder being occupied 

 by a transverse brown mark, slightly tinged with fulvous, 

 and about half an inch in depth, below Avhich a very narrow 

 white tip to the feather is apparent ; on the rest of the under- 

 parts the feathers, which do not appear to have been renewed, 

 are rather more rufous than in No. 2, but are irregularly 

 crossed and varied with white. Mr. Ayres noted the irides 

 of this specimen as " bright gamboge-yellow.'^ 



(No. 6.) Another specimen from the same locality, shot 

 16th July, is in similar plumage to No. 5, but somewhat 

 more advanced. The upper parts resemble in their coloration 

 those of No. 5 ; but the wing- and tail-feathers are trans- 

 versely marked, as in the adult, except that the tail is crossed 

 by five dark bars instead of four, and the interspaces between 

 the dark bars on the outer webs of the secondaries are deep 

 purplish brown instead of brownish grey. The Aving-linings 

 of this specimen resemble those of No. 5 ; the axillary fea- 

 thers appear to be partly old and partly new, the former being 

 rufous, barred with white, and the latter wholly white, with 

 the exception of a subterminal spot of wood-brown. There is 

 much more white on the remainder of the underparts than in 

 No. 5, especially on the abdomen and tibia^ ; and the inter- 



