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curved feathers. The loral and ceral bristles are long, 

 especially the latter. The wings are long and much 

 rounded ; the primary quills strong, tapering, but 

 rounded, the outer four cut out on both edges ; the 

 fourth longest,- the third almost equal, the second a lit- 

 tle shorter, the first and sixth about equal ; the secon- 

 dary thirteen, straight, broad, and rounded. The tail 

 is long, of moderate breadth, nearly straight, slightly 

 rounded, the feathers rather broad and rounded. 



The bill is brownish-black, its basal part tinged with 

 yellow, as is the edge of the festoon ; tlie cere greenish- 

 yellow. The irides are orange ; the feet deep yellow ; 

 the claws brownish-black. 



The general colom- of the upper parts is umber- 

 brown, the terminal margins of the feathers paler ; of 

 the lower parts deep reddish-brown. The upper part 

 of the head and of the hind neck is brownish-white, 

 the shafts of the frontal and occipital feathers brown ; 

 there is also a broad patch of the same colour on the 

 throat. The ciliary and loral bristles are black. The 

 smaller wing-co\^erts are paler, their extremities brown- 

 ish-white ; some of the feathers on the fore part of the 

 back also have yellowish edges, and a few of the sca- 

 pulars have a broad yellow line down the middle of the 

 outer web. The primary quills are blackish-brown, 

 the secondary paler, all slightly margined with brown- 

 ish-grey. The tail is light brown, the lateral feathers 

 irregularly marked on their inner webs witli brownish- 

 red, their tips brownish-white. 



Length to end of tail 21 inches, to end of wings 20 ; 

 extent of wings 50; wing from flexure 161 ; tail 10; 

 bill along the back ly^^j, along the edge of lower man- 



