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of the coverts and scapulars are obscurely tipped with pale 
rufous, or buffy, and the tail feathers are conspicuously, but not 
broadly tipped with rufous white. There is a narrow, dark 
brown moustachial streak, from the gape, and a narrow dark 
line under the eye, a trace of which is observable over and be- 
hind the ear coverts ; cheeks, ear coverts, chin, throat, and centre 
of upper breast, unspotted white; rest of lower parts, white, 
slightly tinged with fulvous, each feather with a subtermural 
brown, or rufous, and brown spot, small and dot-like in the cen- 
tre of the lower breast and abdomen, and widening towards the 
sides, flanks, and lower tail coverts, into arrow head bars, not 
quite extending to the edge of the feathers. The cere, gape, and 
orbits, are bright wax yellow, the base of the corneous portion 
of the bill, is pale horny blue, the tips of the mandibles horny 
black. The legs and feet are yellow. I take this description 
from the figure—a very unsafe method in most cases—but Mr. 
Wolf's figures are sw generis, unapproached and unapproachable, 
to my fancy, and may, I believe, be implicitly relied on. 
Since the above was written, I myself shot (on the 27th No- 
vember) a fine adult female, at Stsa, in the Punjaub, of which 
H proceed to give measurements and description taken in the 
esh. 
Dimensions. Length, 17:25. Expanse, 41. Tail, from vent, 
7°25. Foot, greatest length, 4:5, greatest width 4. Wing 13 ; 
wings, when closed, reach to within 1°87 of end of tail. Tarsus, 
1°75. Mid toe to root of claw, 1:9. Weight 1-87ibs. 
Description. The irides were deep brown. ‘The cere, gape, 
and orbital skin, as well as the legs, and feet, were bright yel- 
low. The claws were black, and the corneous portion of the bill 
was blue, changing to horny black at the tip. The fore- 
head, and the centre of the top of the head, were sandy rufous, 
each feather with a dark brown shaft. The sides of the top, 
and the back, of the head were a somewhat ashy or slaty brown, 
the feathers more or less margined with sandy rufous. A broad, 
rufous, half collar, ran round the back of the neck, a little 
mottled behind the ear coverts, and again in the centre of the 
back of the neck, with dusky slaty. ‘he whole mantle was 
slaty grey, dark and dusky towards the base of the neck, and 
paling towards the rump and upper tail coverts. Most, if not 
all of the feathers were narrowly margined paler,—those to- 
wards the nape, with rufous, and those lower down with greyish 
white. Most of the feathers also were somewhat conspicuously 
darker shafted, and a// exhibited broad, transverse, somewhat 
ill-defined, dusky slaty, bands. The rump, and upper tail co- 
verts were pale slaty, or french grey, with brown shafts, and 
