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Cere and gape, pale greenish, yellower on culmen: upper 
mandible at margin of cere, and basal half of lower mandible, 
very pale blue ; tips of mandibles, bluish horny black. 
Tongue, rather thick and fleshy ; entire, oval at tip, of nearly 
uniform width, which is very small as compared with that of 
the gape. 
Plumage. Lores, whitish, densely clothed with tiny white 
feathers, having greatly elongated, naked, black, or dark brown, 
_bristle-like shafts. A trace of a dark brown stripe, over the 
eye, continued backwards over the ear coverts. Forehead, top 
and back of the head, and nape, the feathers white at the 
base, umber brown in the middle, and pale fulvous brown at the 
tips; the white bases do not show through, and immediately 
over the eye streak, the feathers so overlap, as to show little, 
but the pale fulvous brown; all the feathers of the head are 
very narrow ; and sharp pointed, and more and more elongated 
as they approach the nape. The ear coverts, and cheeks, 
fulvous brown. ‘The chin, and throat, and upper part of the 
neck in front, pale fulvous brown, with here and there faint 
traces of a darker edging. ‘The feathers of the back, sides of 
the neck, lower neck in front, breast, and upper abdomen, 
fulvous brown, pale brown, or in some feathers, almost white, 
broadly and conspicuously edged with dark umber brown. All 
these, except those of the abdomen, very pointed, and narrow ; 
feathers of the upper back, of a similar character, a lighter 
central streak, and a dark margin ; but the shade of both centre 
and margin darker than in the case of the feathers previously 
mentioned. ‘The lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts, 
palish umber brown, of various shades, each feather very 
broadly tipped with fulvous white, pure white, or pale rufous, 
the shade varying in different feathers. The scapulars, and 
lesser, and median wing coverts, a mixture of several shades of 
brown, some of the long est exterior scapulars almost black, but 
the general character of most of the feathers, is to have a paler 
tipping, or a pale patch at the tips; a few of the median and 
lesser coverts near the carpal joint, tipped, and margined 
towards the tip, with pure white. The bird obviously chang- 
ing its plumage, and the old and new feathers amongst the 
winglets, greater coverts, and quills, contrasting strongly ; the 
former being a sort of dingy deep olive brown, the latter almost 
black. The greater coverts of the last few primaries, and first 
few secondaries, conspicuously margined towards the tip with 
white. The first six primaries conspicuously emarginate on the 
inner webs, the points below these emarginations almost black ; 
above this, the inner web is mottled, or obscurely barred with 
