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but even the third pair of centre tail-feathers are more 

 or less, or even entirely, rusty fulvous. In one of our 

 specimens from Banka the third pair is entirely rusty 

 fulvous, and also the inner web of the fourth pair. I can 

 hardly believe that this greater extent of the fulvous color 

 is due to the more advanced age of the bird , this specimen 

 having the chin white like the female instead of black 

 and is, therefore, by no means a very old bird. Eye red, 

 naked skin on the sides of head blue, bill horny white, 

 feet red. Wing 26 cm. , tail 21 — 23 , tarsus 10 — 11 , culmen 

 3-3,5. 



Adult female. Whole upper surface, throat and chest 

 chestnut , the fore-neck and in some specimens also the 

 hind neck , with white lateral edgings to the feathers. 

 These white edgings are also found on the chest , on 

 which , moreover , some black spots are visible , produced 

 by the sometimes not fully hidden large basal part of the 

 feathers, which is black. Back, rump, upper wing- and 

 tail-coverts like the hind neck and mantle, or even darker, 

 with narrow black vermiculations, which are rather faint 

 on back, scapulars and lesser wiug-coverts, but very much 

 stronger on rump and upper tail-coverts. Quills sooty black, 

 the outer webs of the primaries uniform earthy brown , 

 of the secondaries vermiculated with rusty brown ; wing 

 from underneath and under wing-coverts slaty gray; tail- 

 feathers black, the two innermost pairs strongly ver- 

 miculated with rusty brown. Entire breast , flanks , abdomen 

 and thighs sooty black and broadly margined and tipped 

 with white. In some feathers , especially on the flanks 

 and thighs, the black centres are in a more or less degree 

 vermiculated with brown near the tip. In one of our 

 Bornean specimens these brown vermiculations are very broad 

 and not only found on the feathers of the flanks , but also 

 on the breast. In this specimen the white margins are 

 almost entirely restricted to the lateral edge of the feathers. 

 The lower abdomen in all our female specimens is nearly 

 pure white , the hinder flank-feathers and under tail-coverts 



JVotes from tlie Ley den Aluseuin, Vol. XVII. 



