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that of the female, with the exception that the chest is 

 paler fulvous; the other, however, differs from the first in 

 having the whole foreneck dark ashy gray , intermixed 

 with white spots to some of the feathers. The chin and 

 centre of the throat are almost entirely white , and the fea- 

 thers on the chest are very conspicuously banded across 

 with black. 



The female agrees exactly with the description given 

 by Bocage. — Wing in male 19 — 26 cm., in female 16 cm. 



126. Plotus Levaillantii, Licht. 



Butt. 1. c. p. 251. 



1 specimen ((ƒ), Junk River. 



Leyden Museum, September 1886. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseucn , Vol. VIII. 



