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grey, or greyish brown. In the succeeding primaries, and 
secondaries, there is a trace of mottling, and incomplete barring 
(very distinct in the new, and less so on the old feathers) on 
both webs. The new secondaries are almost perfectly black, 
narrowly margined at the tip with white, and with about seven 
trausverse irregular, and ill-defined bars of grey, or brownish 
grey, across both webs; but not reaching quite to the margin 
of either. The old secondaries are a sort of umber, or dark, 
dirty olive brown, obscurely barred, and mottled with a paler 
shade, and with traces of a pale tippmg. ‘The tertials are 
brown, obscurely mottled and barred with a darker shade of 
brown, and grey, and broadly tipped with white, and fulvous 
white. The tail feathers are of several shades of brown ; from 
sandy, to almost black; none of the feathers very new, but 
some much older, and more abraded than others, and these are 
the lightest. All have a pale tipping, and the central ones 
which are very old, and abraded, seem to have had pale 
margins ; and all show traces of six or seven transverse bars, (on 
both webs in most of them,) of pale fulvous, in the case of the 
lighter; and brownish grey, in that of the darker ones. The 
lower abdomen, vent, and lower tail coverts are nearly uniform 
pale fulvous, and though here and there, a few feathers show 
traces of a darker brown, these parts contrast strongly, with 
the broadly dark margined feathers of the breast and upper 
abdomen. Avxillaries, and wing lining, except larger lower 
coverts, a mixture of brown, and pale rufous ; the former pre- 
dominating in the axillaries; greater lower coverts, brown, 
greyish brown, and greyish white. 
2nd. What I take to be a more advanced form of the First, 
or lineated stage. 
Female. Shot, 22nd February. 
Description. The feet, and upper surface of toes, a pale wax 
yellow, feet as usual, dirty and dingy; claws, horn black ; 
seutze, small, convex, hexagonal, or nearly circular, with four 
large, thick, transverse ones at the tip of each toe. Inner edge 
of mid claw, a little dilated. 
Trides very clear, and pale brown ; edges of lids, wax yellow ; 
eye shelf, greyish white, with a faint yellowish tinge. 
Cere, wax yellow, with a faint tinge of green near the margin 
of the cere, at commissure ; base of both mandibles, bluish grey, 
the rest of the bill horny brown, and blackish. 
Plumage. The lores, point of chin, and the points of the tongues 
of feathers, which run down each side of the lower mandible, 
clad with tiny white feathers, with greatly elongated bristie-like, 
