2. ASTFE. 7 



Leucospizias cinereus, Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. 365 ; id. List Diurn. Bch. 

 Prey, p. 33 (1884) ; Gurney, pm., Cat. Bds. Prty, p. 20 (1894). 



Adult female. Upper surface of body, wings, and the tail, 

 bluish ashy grey, concealed portion of the feathers of the body 

 and of the smaller scapulars white barred more or less with same 

 tint ; the side of the head and ear-coverts of a lighter tint ; tips 

 of the primaries darker, very narrowly margined with white, their 

 inner webs tinged with ashy brown, obsolete bars visible in certain 

 lights on outer webs of primaries and secondaries ; central por- 

 tions of the inner webs of these feathers crossed with dark ashy- 

 grey bars ; the basalportions and inner margins (except atthe tips) 

 white; the whole of the under surface of the wing, except the 

 outer margin of the tips of the primaries past the notch (where 

 it is ashy grey) is of a pure glistening white, the bars and 

 marking of the upper surface distinctly showing through ; 

 shafts of the quills white below, dark reddish-brown above ; small 

 feathers on the margins of the shoulders, the chest, breast, 

 axillaries, and flanks white, crossed by numerous narrow lines 

 of light bluish ashy grey ; sides of the neck barred like the chest 

 but less distinctly ; abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts, pure 

 white ; tail above, same as the back and wings, bluish ashy- 

 grey, the tips of the feathers narrowly margined with white ; 

 the' two centre tail feathers and the outer webs of the rest 

 indistinctly, but the inner webs distinctly barred with a darker 

 tint ; the inner webs, which have a faint brownish tinge, are white 

 at the base along the margin of the inner web, the shafts brown ; 

 under surface of tail glistening white, the bars and marking of 

 the upper surface showing through distinctly on the inner webs, 

 shafts" white ; bill and claws black ; cere, base of bill, eyelids, 

 legs and feet citron yellow ; iris deep yellow ; total length 20 

 inches, wing 12-9, tail'9-5, tarsus 3-4, hind toe 1-2, middle toe 21, 

 bill from base of cere I'S, along the culmen 1'45. 



Adult male. Mr. Sharpe describes the male of this species as 

 similar to the female, but smaller, and gives the following mea- 

 surements : — " Total length 16-5 inches, culmen 1-2, wing lO'lS, 

 tail 7-8, tarsus 2-7 " ; and also mentions an adult female in the 

 collection of the British Museum which has the " wing-coverts and 

 tail tipped with whitish, and the bars on the breast, which are a 

 little more distinct than in the specimen of the adult male he 

 describes, mixed with brown, evidently the signs of immaturity. 

 Total length 20 inches, wing 12-25, tarsus 2-95." 



" A younger bird does not exhibit the whitish margins to the 

 wing coverts, but has the markings on the chest more elongate, 

 these, as well as the other pectoral markings, being broad and 

 distinct and brownish in colour ; iris brown."* 



• Sharpe, Cat. Bds., Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 118 (1874). 



