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brown linear central stripes. The ear coverts rufous, with dark 
central stripes and the longer feathers tipped blackish brown. 
A black line immediately under the eye running over the ear 
coverts and lost in the dark tips of these. Chin, and throat, 
rufous white, most rufous towards the sides of the neck, and 
each feather with a dark shaft, or narrow dark central stripe. 
The whole of the breast, abdomen, sides, thigh coverts, axilla- 
ries, and lining of the wing, white ; conspicuously, closely and 
broadly barred with dark brown; many of the feathers with 
a rufous tinge towards the tips, and some of them especially in 
the flanks, with rufous more or less taking the place of the 
brown bar. The lower tail coverts nearest the vent, narrowly 
barred with paler brown; the longer tail coverts pure white. 
A conspicuous patch of rusty or pale chestnut on the sides, 
Inner webs of the primaries strongly barred white, or greyish 
white, and dark brown; the bars perpendicular or nearly so to 
the shaft, and not slanting as in the Huropean specimens of 
Nisus that I have examined; the whole barring of the under 
surface is much closer and more conspicuous than in any of the 
nine specimens of Visws from Hurope, with which I have com- 
pared it, the bars being in one quite as broad, and in the other, 
nearly as broad as the white interspaces. The feet are larger; 
the hind toe and claw, and inner toe and claw, conspicuously 
so. ‘The wings appear to be more pointed and much larger than 
in any of the apparently adult Huropean specimens (females) 
from France, and from England with which I compared them. 
Of the second plumage male, which I sent to Mons. Verreaux 
I have no detailed notes, but the whole upper plumage, had a 
dark olivaceous tint, unlike anything I have ever seen in 
Nisus. 
The female in second plumage, a small bird comparatively, 
measured. Length, 16:5. Wing, 10°12. Tail, 8-6. Expanse, 0°31. 
Tarsus, 2°5. Mid toe to root of claw, 1:8. The upper parts are 
grey brown, darker and more slaty about the head, nape and 
upper back, whitish about the forehead, over the eye, and with 
a mottled white patch (owing to the white bases of the feathers 
showing through) on the nape. The scapulars, lesser wing 
coverts, upper tail coverts and most of the feathers of the back, 
with darker shafts, and the longest upper tail coverts tipped 
white and with a dark subterminal band. ‘Tail, a sort of dove 
colour slightly paler on the lateral feathers, tipped white and 
with five broad transverse dark brown bands (one hidden by 
the upper tail coverts) on both webs of all the feathers, except 
in the outer web, of one of the exterior laterals, from which the 
bars have nearly disappeared. ‘The chin, throat, and sides of 
