226 FALCO iESALON. 



tinged with green. The general colour of the upper 

 parts is dark brown, the feathers edged and barred 

 with pale yellowish-red ; the tail of the same colour, but 

 the primary quills darker. The feathers of the back 

 have each one, two, four or six concealed spots of light 

 brownish-red, the secondary quills and their coverts 

 are marked on both webs with similar spots, as are the 

 primaries on the outer webs, on which, however, the 

 spots are less distinct. The tail has five conspicuous 

 bands of large pale reddish spots, the tips reddish-white, 

 forming a sixth bar, besides which, there are at the 

 base other three. The throat is yellowish-white, with 

 shaft-lines of brown; the cheeks yellowish-red, streaked 

 with brown, the latter colour forming a band from the 

 angle of the mouth. The lower parts are pale reddish- 

 yellow, with broad longitudinal streaks of umber brown, 

 the upper hypochondrial feathers being of the same 

 colour, some of them with round spots of greyish- yel- 

 low. A few of the lower tail-coverts have a slight cen- 

 tral brown line towards the end. The males are easily 

 distinguished from the females, as they are darker and 

 tinged with blue on the back. 



Progress towards Maturity. — The males gra- 

 dually become of a darker tint, more tinged with blue 

 above. The females undergo less change. A young 

 male in an intermediate stage was as follows. Bill 

 light blue, tipped with black ; cere light green ; eyelids 

 greenish blue ; tarsi and toes greenish-yellow, slightly 

 tinged with blue, each feather with a central line of 

 black. The general colour of the upper parts deep 

 brown, slightly tinged with blue, each feather with a 



