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the surface of the egg. Having been 

 extracted from the body of the bird, the 

 egg has of course but Httle gloss. It 

 measures 1*5 by i"o5." 



The male has a broad grey band on 

 each side of the head, the two bands 

 meeting behind the crown. The whole 

 upper plumage is fulvous brown tinged 

 with ochraceous yellow over the tail ; and 

 the visible portions of the closed wing are 

 a mixture of bluish grey and buffy yellow, 

 this last forming margins and tips to the 

 feathers. The quills of the wing are pale 

 fulvous brown with black shafts and a 

 broad blackish band near the tip of each 

 feather which is narrowly whitish. The 

 throat, the sides of the head and a portion 

 of the sides of the neck are rather bright 

 saffron-yellow. The whole lower plumage 

 is pale fulvous brown with a large black 

 patch on the middle of the belly. The 

 middle tail feathers are fulvous ending 

 in black and the others are greyish brown 

 broadly tipped with whitish. The feathers 

 under the tail are white. 



In the female, the whole upper plumage, 

 the visible portions of the closed wing, 

 the sides of the neck, the foreneck and 

 the chest are pinkish brown thickly 

 covered with round black spots. The 



