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Locality. Length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Mid toe. 
Oudh, 17°3 13 ye sO 1:95 2°05 
Babylon, 17:0 12%). 66 1:95 1:95 
Abyssinia, 18-0 12° 6°50 2°00 1:95 
I doubt whether these dimensions are altogether reliable, I 
expect they were taken from dry skins; under any circumstances 
I should suppose that all these specimens were females. 
I proceed to give exact measurements, and a description (re- 
corded from the specimen when fresh) of a young male, shot 
by me at Suhson in the Etawah district, and I would add, that 
this description, agrees very closely, with a specimen given by 
Dr. Jerdon (who procured it in Cashmere,) to Col. Tytler, though 
being a female, it is somewhat larger than my bird, having the 
wing, 12°6, and the tail, 7 inches. 
Length, 16 inches. Expanse, 38 inches. Weight, 12 ozs. 
Wing, 11°87 inches; the 2nd primary the longest. Tail of 12 
feathers, length from vent, 6 inches. Tarsus, (feathered for 0°5 
inches, in front) 1°87 inches. Foot, greatest length, 4 inches ; 
ereatest width, 3°75 inches; mid toe, 1:94, its claw, 0°73; hind 
toe 0°94, its claw, 0°81. Bill, straight, 1:06; along curve, 1:25; 
from gape, 1:19; width at gape, 1:19; height at front, at edge 
of cere, 0°53; length of cere only, 0:27. Contents of stomach, 
portions of a Turtur Cambaiensis, feathers and all. 
Legs and feet, bright yellow, whitish at the joints of the reti- 
culated scales of the tarsus; soles with large pads, very conspi- 
cuous under second joint of middle, and exterior toe; claws, horn. 
black; middle toe, very slender and elongated. Inides, dark 
brown ; edges of the lids, greenish yellow, with tiny dark lashes ; 
membrane of the orbits, pale greenish. 
Cere, pale sea-green with only a tinge of yellow on the ridge. 
Bill pale bluish green; points, and culmen, horny bluish black. 
Tongue, small, thick, fleshy, obtuse ended, of nearly the same 
size throughout, deeply divided by a groove down the centre. 
Plumage. Forehead, buffy white, feathers dark shafted. 
Line over the eye, continued round the back of the head, whi- 
tish or fulvous white; feathers, dark shafted. Whole crown of 
the head, brown, a few feathers in centre, towards the front, very 
broadly margined, the rest very narrowly margined, with ful- 
vous or buffy white. The nape below the white stripe, darkish 
brown in the centre, the feathers margined with buffy white, 
and with a patch of white on either side, the feathers of which 
have dark spots towards the tips. The whole of the rest of the 
back of the neck, upper back, scapulars, and wing coverts, a near- 
ly uniform brown, with a faint tinge of slaty, and all the fea- 
