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measurements from the fresh bird in any of these. As far as 
can be ascertained from the skins, they correspond precisely 
with the dimensions above recorded. 
In the second stage considerable variations occur. Of No. 10, 
a bulky looking female shot near Juggernathpoor in March, 
and which is decidedly in younger plumage than the one which 
I have described as typical, I have the following note :— 
The whole bird is a lighter and duller brown, and its spots are 
a duller fawn or dingier fulvous white than those of the No. 4 
type. ‘There is no purple gloss. The chin is darker and more 
the colour of the front and top of the head, where there is little 
trace of the pale tippings. On the other hand, the pale brown 
tippings are more conspicuous on the feathers of the hind head 
and upper part of the neck. The breast, abdomen and sides 
are nearly uniform dull pale wood brown, with only here and 
there faint traces of the rich dark umber brown margins so 
characteristic of this stage. The longer thigh coverts again, 
are almost wholly dingy fulvous white, with only a mottling of 
dingy umber brown on the basal halves. Lastly, the rump is 
mostly a dingy fulvous, the feathers only having narrow dingy 
umber brown margins, which do not extend to the tips. The 
bird, though much nearest to No. 4, appears intermediate 
between it and No. 1. 
Of another, I say, No. 5, female resembled No. 4 closely, 
but there was a much richer purple gloss on the whole upper 
surface, which also was somewhat darker ; the ear patch was not 
so light, the spots on the scapulars and lower back and rump 
were larger and more conspicuous, and in the case of the 
scapulars far more numerous. The upper back and base of the 
neck behind, of uniform colour in the first, have in this speci- 
men terminal, central buffy spots. The pale tippings to the 
feathers of the head were far more conspicuous, every one of the 
median wing coverts had its terminal spot, and most of the 
lesser have also a minute buffy white linear spot, or speck at 
the tip. There was somewhat less white about the upper tail 
coverts. Below, the surface generally darker and the central 
streaks lighter and far more strongly marked. A patch of 
feathers on the breast, a sandy brown, (though not so pale 
as the central streaks of the lower feathers) only narrowly 
margined with the deep umber brown. There was rather more 
white about the tarsus above the foot. The pale tipping of the 
tail feathers was also more conspicuous. 
No. 3 male, was an older bird, intermediate between the second 
and third stages, ‘not a speck or spot on back of neck, wpper 
back, shoulders, lesser and median wing coverts, except at the 
