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female, the male bird with its crest-feathers erect immediately 

 appeared on the scene and ran close by her. Breeding was 

 almost over, the majority of the birds being in a moulting 

 condition. We, however, found a nest containing one young 

 bird. The nest was composed of dry grass, and built in a 

 depression underneath a large stone. Their chief food seemed 

 to be grass-seed, but now and again we found flocks picking 

 up a livelihood on the stretch of black rocks close to the sea. 



XII. List of the Birds of Raza. 



1. Falco neglectus. 

 One specimen obtained. 



2. PaNDION HALIAETUS. 



3. CORVUS UiMBRINUS. 



4. Passer jagoensis. 



These Sparrows nest in holes in the cliffs. 



5. Spizocorys raz^ sp. nov. (Plate III.) 



Adult male and female. General colour above pale sandy 

 brown ; each feather of the crown and upper parts dark 

 brown, widely margined with pale isabelline. The feathers of 

 the crown lengthened into a short full crest; lores whitish; 

 cheeks whitish spotted with brown, and ear-coverts brownish 

 white with darker middles; chin, throat, and a half collar 

 round the sides of the neck white ; chest white, tinged 

 with sandy, each feather with a triangular dark brown spot 

 at the end of the shaft; rest of the uuderparts white, 

 brownish on the sides and flanks, where the feathers have 

 dark shaft-stripes. Quills and tail-feathers dark brown, 

 margined and tipped with pale sandy white. Bill blackish 

 horn, whitish towards the base of the lower mandible; iris 

 dark hazel ; legs and feet brownish flesh-colour ; claws blackish 

 horn. 



Adult male. Total length 5*84 inches, culmen 0*65, wing 

 3-2, tail 205, tarsus 85. 



Adult female. Total length 5'34 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 

 3-0, tail 1-75, tarsus O'S. 



