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flanks, axillaries and under-wing coverts barred brown and white, 

 the latter predominating. Under tail coverts white, sometimes 

 practically unmarked and sometimes faintly barred with dusky brown 

 and often with a faint rufous tinge. Wing coverts brown, speckled 

 with rufous next the scapulars and elsewhere barred with rufous and 

 black and tipped white ; the edge of the shoulder is also barred with 

 white ; primaries dark brown edged and tipped with white, the edges 

 broadest on the outermost quill and almost disappearing on the 

 innermost ; secondaries dark brown, tipped white, with frecklings of 

 rufous and black, which in the inner secondaries become regular bars 

 throughout the whole length of the feathers. 



Colours of Soft Parts. — Bill greenish plumbeous, darkest at the tip, 

 where it is almost black, and yellowish at the base of the lower 

 mandible ; iris dark brown ; feet and legs pale yellowish plumbeous, 

 the soles yellow ochre and claws horny brown. 



"Bill plumbeous, black at tip, base of lower mandible yellowish 

 brown ; feet dull olive or pale yellowish green, the soles yellowish ; 

 claws horny black ; iris dark brown." {Scully.) 



" The irides are dark brown ; the legs and feet in adults are dull 

 olive or yellowish-green, or greenish or dull pale yellow — in young 

 birds ashy with a greenish tinge ; the claws black or brownish-black ; 

 the terminal one-third of the bill is black or brownish-black, the 

 basal portions generally yellowish-brown, bluish along commissure, 

 but the upper mandible often has a greenish ashy or plumbeous or 

 vinous or fleshy tinge, and sometimes is plumbeous everywhere 

 except at the dark tip." {Hume.) 



Measurements. — " Total length 11 inches, culmen '2'9, wing 6'3, 

 tail 2'3, tarsus 1"3." {Sharpe.) 



" Wing 6-25 to G'S inches, bill 2-52 to 2-87 (no male above 277), 

 weight 5 ozs. to 8 ozs." {Hume.) 



Adult Female. — Similar to the male. 



Measurements. — •" Total length 11 inches, culmen 28, wing (30, 

 tail 2'5, tarsus 1'3." {Sharpe.) 



" The sexes do not, judged by my measurements, appear to differ 

 appreciably in size, but the three largest birds measured were females 

 and the two smallest males, so that probably, age for age, if one 

 could make sure of this, the females are the largest." {Hume.) 



