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trees, placing its moderately sized, stick and twig nest, in a 
fork, usually some considerable height from the ground. In 
(Three males and six females measured and weighed.) 
The fourth primary the longest. The first is 3°50 to 5:00 shorter, the 
second 1:09 to 1°50, and the third nil to 0°50 shorter. Exterior tail feathers 
0°37 to 1:00, shorter than central ones. 
Description, The legs and feet, which are very full and puffy, vary from 
dingy yellowish white in the young, to bees-wax yellow in old adults. Scu- 
tellation, well marked and reticulate, (the plates somewhat concave, especially 
at back of tarsus,) except about three or four, transverse scutz, at the tips of 
all the toes ; a mere trace of a connecting membrane, between the central and 
outer toes, at the base. Claws black, and except the mid toe claw, compressed ; 
hind claw much curved, and mid claw with the interior margin, usually much 
dilated, especially towards the tip. Ivides brilliant yellow, duller or slightly 
brownish in younger birds. Cere black, greenish at nostrils and towards 
commissure. Gape and two-thirds of the commissure from gape, and greater 
portion of lower mandible pale blue; greater portion of upper mandible and 
tip of lower, black; a small dingy greenish patch on each side of the lower 
mandible towards the base. Tongue, moderate, obtuse, entire ; rather stiff 
and membraneous towards the tip, (where it is slightly emarginate) and 
margins. 
Plumage-—Of one quite young bird, the whole head, neck, and under parts 
are fawn coloured: the throat and chin paler and unstreaked, the crown of 
the head and nape more rufous, all the feathers, except those of the chin and 
throat, darker shafted, and those of the crown, nape and breast with a conspi- 
cuous, median, dark brown streak. The whole of the wing coverts and back 
are a light brown, lighter on the wing coverts many of which are margined 
paler. The longer scapulars, secondaries, and tertiaries are a somewhat 
darker brown. The quills are somewhat darker still. The upper tail coverts 
are of nearly the same pale rufous or fawn that pervades the lower parts. 
The tail is a light brown, the usual narrow white tip, then there narrow wavy 
bars of paler hue, banding the terminal five inches of the tail feathers, and 
showing in one place, about four inches from the end, a small spot of dark 
brown, on both sides of the shaft. About five inches from the end, is a tolera- 
bly well marked bar of darker brown, about half an inch wide, then again 
nearly an inch of the same brown as the rest of the tail, with three narrow, 
irregular, pale bars, and then just under the upper tail coverts, a trace of 
another, half inch broad, ill-defined, darker brown bar. The tail in this 
instance, presents scarcely a trace of the almost constant, subterminal dark 
brown band. The lining of the wing is the same colour as the rest of the lower 
parts, and its feathers similarly darker shafted. Thereisa faint greyish 
streak covering the lores and eyes, and extending for about a quarter of an 
inch behind the eye. 
In other specimens of somewhat older birds, the fawn colour is every- 
where replaced by a rich rufous, in others by a dingy rufous brown, in 
others by a very dark wood brown, and lastly, in some, by an almost 
pure white. To all these the above description would answer mutatis mutandis, 
remembering that the difference in the colour in the under parts, and head, 
extends, to a certain degree, to the brown of the upper parts. The wing 
lining, in almost every case, being exactly the same shade of colour as the 
breast. The tail, however, in most specimens, differs from that of the young 
bird above described. First, there is the narrow tipping of white, then a bar 
of more or less dark brown about an inch wide, then about three inches of a 
