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foot, with three and what would have been a fourth had it not 
been divided down the centre ; inner toe of right foot, and hind 
toes of both feet, with four, outer toes of both feet with three 
transverse scutee. Irides, brown ; edge of lower lid, plumbeous ; 
of upper lid, yellowish ; bare shelf above the eye, dingy, pale, 
slightly greenish yellow; lower lid, greyish white, sparsely 
clothed with brownish white down. Cere, gape, and base of 
lower mandible, full butter-cup yellow, but with a tinge of 
green, near the nostrils, and on lower mandible. Bill, pale, 
bluish grey at junction of cere, and near base of lower mandible, 
bluish horny beyond. 
Plumage. Lores greyish white, thickly clad with tiny down- 
like feathers, with elongated naked dark brown shafts, looking 
like fine bristles. There is a small patch of similar feathers at 
the tip of the chin, and at the point of the sort of tongue of 
feathers, which runs down the basal half of the sides of the 
lower mandible. The forehead, and front of the top of the 
head, umber brown, only one or two feathers of a slightly 
lighter hue. The feathers of the occiput, and nape, of the 
same umber brown, elongated and narrow pointed; and all 
conspicuously tipped and margined towards the tips, with a 
pale, somewhat fulvous brown, which colour, owing to the 
over-lapping of the feathers, perhaps predominates. ‘The whole 
of the back of the neck, upper back, scapulars, and lesser and 
median wing coverts, a mixture of paler and darker brown, 
some feathers being of the one colour and some of the other, the 
dark being most numerous on the upper back, and back of neck, 
and least so, on the lesser wing coverts. The longer scapulars 
are almost all of the darker hue: (the darkest hue is not nearly 
so dark, as that of the adult Imperialis, but the lighter is darker 
than that of the Bifasciata, my 2nd, stage). 
The middle back is chiefly of the paler hue, one of the feathers 
being nearly wholly greyish white, and three others tipped 
with the same. The lower back, and rump, are uniform dark 
brown. ‘The upper tail coverts, are a somewhat fulvous white, 
broadly tipped, and irregularly barred, with palish fulvous 
brown. The tail feathers, are a mixture of new and old; the 
former darker, and more umber, the latter somewhat more 
sandy ; all with traces of five or six irregular, ill-defined, wavy, 
transverse, greyish bars, conspicuous on the new feathers, and 
least visible on the outer webs of all the feathers new and 
old. The winglet, and all the greater coverts, are very dark 
brown, except the last two or three of the greater coverts of 
the primaries, which are paler brown. ‘The inner webs of all 
these feathers, are more or less mottled, or obscurely barred 
