372 ALUCO STRIDULUS. 



lour at the base, dusky towards the end ; the iris blu- 

 ish-black. The facial disks are anteriorly yellowish- 

 white, pale reddish-brown behind, the feathers lying 

 over the bill with black shafts. The ruff is yellowish- 

 red mottled with brown above, at the middle very dark 

 brown, with whitish spots, below yellowish-brown mot- 

 tled with darker. The general colour of the upper 

 parts is yellowish-red, streaked and mottled with black- 

 ish-brown ; the head above is deep reddish-brown ; the 

 outer webs of the feathers of the hind neck near the 

 end are whitish. Several of the scapulars, wing- 

 coverts, and secondary coverts are white on the outer 

 web near the tip, as in the male. The quills and tail 

 are barred in the same manner. The colouring of the 

 lower parts is precisely similar, and the lower tail- 

 coverts in both are dull white, with lanceolate central 

 <lark brown spots. 



The intestinal canal differs only in its proportions ; 

 the cesophagus being five inches long, its glandular 

 part one inch ; the stomach two and a half inches ; the 

 intestine thirty inches. The longest of the two coeca, 

 which were nearly equal, was four inches and three quar- 

 ters long ; at their commencement, which was three and 

 a half inches distant from the anus, they were of the 

 same diameter as the intestine, which was there two- 

 twelfths, its greatest diameter near the upper end be- 

 ing- four and a half twelfths. 



Length to end of tail 16 inches ; to end of wings 14 ; 

 extent of wings 32 ; wing from flexure 10^ ; tail 6i ; bill 

 along the ridge II, along the edge of lower mandible If ; 

 tarsus l\l; hind toe ^%, its claw j% ; second toe 1^, its 

 claw |§ ; third toe lj%, its claw j% ; fourth toe j%, its 

 claw li. 



