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were the longest, and these exceeded the first primary by 5°63- 
4-63; and the second by 1-1°25. Length of tail from vent, 12- 
12:25. Tarsus (feathered in front for I inch) 3°69-3°69. Foot, 
ereatest length, 5-4°88; greatest width, 4°75-4°38 ; mid toe to 
root of claw, 2°19-2°06; its claw along curve, 1°38-1:19; hind 
toe, 113-1, its claw, along curve, 1°5-1°19; inner toe, 1°72-1°7, 
its claw, along curve 1:56-1:53. Bill including cere, from 
forehead to point, straight, 1-88-1°75; along curve, 2°5-2°25 ; 
from gape, 2°5-2°25 ; width at gape, 1°81-1°69 ; height at front, 
at margin of cere, 0°88-0°81; length of cere on culmen, 0:44- 
0-5. In both, the wings when closed reach to within 0:5 of end 
of tail; and the lower tail coverts to within 4:25 of end of tail. 
Description of No, 6. 
The legs and feet are a pale earthy greyish brown, covered 
with prominent, sharp-edged, armour plate, overlapping, loose- 
looking, hexagonal scales. Three large scales at the end of 
each toe, the upper generally divided, claws black, inner edge of 
middle one, conspicuously dilated into a cutting edge. 
Irides, bright orange yellow; orbits thickly covered with 
white down. 
Bill, pale greyish blue at base, blackish horny at tips; cere 
which is small, whitish, with a tinge of bluish grey in places. 
Tongue large, fleshy, hastate, obtuse ended. 
The forehead, lores, chin and patch on each side of lower 
mandible whitish, and, except on the forehead, with black, naked, 
much prolonged, bristle-like shafts. The whole top and back of 
head, throat, neck all round, back, rump, upper tail coverts, 
scapulars, and upper wing coverts, except primary greater 
coverts, a sort of earthy brown, of more shades than one; the 
throat and neck in front being the palest and most fulvous, (all 
the feathers conspicuously dark-shafted,) and the scapulars (the 
longest of which are a dark, almost umber, brown) and mid back 
the darkest. Many of the feathers especially of the back of the 
neck, and lesser wing coverts inconspicuously margined paler, 
Winglet, primaries and their greater coverts, a dark brown, but 
the primaries from the 2nd to the 6th emarginate on the outer 
webs and with a greyish shade on the outer web above the 
emarginations. First three primaries conspicuously notched, 
and the 4th and 5th with a trace of similar notches on the inner 
webs, which in all five are nearly wholly white above the said 
notches. The later primaries and the secondaries, (the brown 
of which latter pales as they recede from the primaries, until, 
like the tertials, they are nearly concolourous with their coverts) 
with half the inner webs diagonally white; and with four con- 
spicuous, broad, dark brown, transverse bars. 
