178 
Wings when 
closed reached 
Length. |Expanse.| Wing. | Tail. |to within how bil 
much of end | ™ “8: 
| of tail. 
Male Ist, ...|| 25°25 66°5 20°4 | 10°25 05 4:0 
Hy eh eee 65:0 20°0 10°0 AEROS 30 
oy mdek a BO 640. FO IO Yl) ee 275 
Mr paulo ccah aO 64:0 7 a a Fey ia 30 
re EE ech; Oreo 64°25 19% | 11:0 1°75 30 
Female Ist,...) 27°5 69:0 21°4 | 12°0 15 4:5 
Bons) ae Oo 70°0 B13: | 1E0 1:25 475 
ReOrls cal. 20 0 73°0 21°75 | 12:0 1:55 45 
Pa atBs cel aaee 70°5 21:0 | 115 1°75 45 
Ps Sothe sls, 2e8 73°25 22-0" (ais 05 4:5 
Obs ak) aiieo 69°25 20°75 | 11°5 2°13 45 
eorTthsch 2S 69°5 26 ETS 2:0 50 
I have selected these, as small, large, and average exam- 
ples out of over forty ticketed birds, and this set of measure- 
ments, with the more detailed ones given above, ought to 
enable European naturalists to decide, whether there is really, 
in point of size, any great difference between A. Nevioides and 
A. Fulvescens. , 
The female No. 3 (killed near Etawah, January 4th) of 
which I have above given detai/ed measurements, was a charac- 
teristic enough example of a bird changing from what I 
consider the second, into the third stage; as I have it by me, I 
give an exact description of this specimen. 
Description. Legs and feet, dirty greenish white; claws, 
black ; feet and toes, with reticulate scales, but with five large 
transverse scute atthe tip of the middle, and hind toe, and four 
at the tips of each of the lateral ones. 
Trides, brown; edges of lids, bluish; orbits, bluish white, 
sparsely feathered with white down; membrane of bare eye- 
shelf, pale bluish grey. 
Cere and gape, dirty cream colour, bluish about nostrils; up- 
per mandible, at junction with cere, and lower mandible except at 
the tip, pale bluish grey; tips of both black. 
Tongue, thick, fleshy, entire, slightly bilobed, of nearly uni- 
form width throughout, very narrow in proportion to width of 
ape. 
E Eiweeee Lores, greyish white, densely clothed with long, 
fine, dark brown, hair-like feathers. A patch on the forehead, 
