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a certain light; rump somewhat darker than the back, 

 nearly purplish black with a strongly pronounced greenish 

 gloss on some of the feathers ; wing-coverts rather paler 

 brown than the back , and somewhat tinged with olive , 

 the greater wing-coverts tipped with pearly gray and 

 white, which color forms a rather narrow anterior edge 

 to the alar speculum , while the white posterior edge is 

 formed by the white tips to the secondaries. The alar spec- 

 ulum itself is purplish black , showing , under certain 

 lights, in a strong degree the same metallic green gloss 

 as some of the rump-feathers , while a coppery gloss is 

 entirely wanting ; primaries earthy brown , the tips nearly 

 black , with purplish gloss ; under surface of the quills 

 pearly gray, outer under wing-coverts buffy white with 

 large earthy brown central spots, the inner ones and the 

 axillaries uniform buffy white ; tail cuneate , tail-feathers 

 pointed, brown, all but the two or three uniform centre 

 pairs provided with a distinct double edge of white on the 

 outer web and three to five dirty white cross-bars on the 

 inner. The lower surface is considerably paler brown than 

 the upper, glossed with grayish bronzy brown, especially 

 on the body , and strongly varied with fulvous , giving the 

 whole underparts a rather fulvous appearance. A narrow 

 spot on each side of the front above, and another below 

 the black loral streak , near the lateral base of the bill , 

 a short and narrow line behind the eye, the whole chin 

 and , last not least , a very broad semicircular band between 

 the fore-neck and the chest, white; a malar stripe and 

 the ear-coverts uniform dark brown ; the cheeks , the sides 

 of the head , including an indistinct superciliary streak , 

 fore-neck and sides of neck fulvous, each feather very 

 markedly streaked in the centre with dark brown , giving 

 these parts a streaked appearance; feathers of chest brown, 

 edged with fulvous , those of the central part marked in 

 the middle with an arrow-shaped , fulvous mark , those on 

 the lateral parts with a sublateral and subterminal edge 

 of the same color; the feathers on the breast, the sides of 



Notes from tlie Leyden TMuseum , Vol. XVIII. 



