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shelf projecting from the face of a low precipice; immedi- 
ately above it, projected a large point of rock, from which 
depended a perfect curtain of bushes, which reached the tops 
of the trees, growing at the foot of the precipice. The nest, the 
Paharees said, (I could not get up to it myself,) was composed 
of sticks, with a few feathers intermingled, it was completely 
hidden from sight by the bushes and rocks above and _ below, 
and contained on the 6th of June, three very young birds. 
The female was fired at, but not obtained at the time ; weeks 
afterwards, her remains were found, hanging in the moss and 
ferns of a tree, some distance down the valley, utterly rotten 
and spoiled. 
The male brought the young ones up, and on the 10th of 
October, I shot him and one of the young ones, then as nearly 
full grown as might be. 
pale fulvous. The 2nd to the 6th primaries are distinctly emarginate 
on the outer webs, and the barrings are dull and inconspicuous, and the 
margins serrated below the emarginations. All the quills are narrowly 
tipped with rather dull white. The tertiaries are narrowly banded more 
conspicuously than the greater secondary coverts, less so than the exterior 
scapulars. The lower back and upper tail coverts are the same dark brown 
as the central scapulars, faintly and narrowly banded with yellowish white. 
The tail feathers are also of much the same shade of brown, somewhat deeper 
on the exterior webs of the lateral feathers; all are conspicuously though 
not broadly tipped with white, and all have numerous, imperfect bars on 
both webs, which on the central feathers, the external webs, and terminal one 
fourth of internal webs of lateral feathers, are somewhat narrow, and pale 
fulvous in colour, and on the basal three-fourths of the inner webs of the lateral 
feathers are very broad and nearly pure white. On the inner surface of the 
wing, the inner webs of the first 6 primaries are conspicuously notched, the 
seventh exhibiting a trace of the same. The first primary is barless, but 
on the inner web, above the notching, there is a buffy freckling. All the 
other primaries, above the notching, in those that have notches, and all the rest 
of the quills, except the terminal, one fourth, are buffy, with broad, irregular, 
rather pale, brown bands, more or less freckled with dark brown. ‘The 
terminal portion of all the quills except the first two, are dark brown, with 
transverse, fulvous, or buffy bands, more indistinct and wider apart on the 
third and other earlier primaries, and closer, aud more conspicuous, on the 
later secondaries. The second primary shows very faint traces of similar 
barrings. The lower surface of the tail is buffy brown, darker towards the 
tip, somewhat closely and conspicuously barred with yellowish white. Upper 
portion of the last joint of the toes are pale plumbeous, with 3 or 4 large but 
soft membraneous secute. The claws are very sharp and the inner margin of 
the central claw is dilated and knife-like. The bill curves almost from the base, 
the cere is ill-defined and blends almost insensibly with the corneous portion 
of the bill, and there is a conspicuous notch near the tip of the lower 
mandible. The earaperture is enormous. I may add to the dimensions above 
given, that the third primary is1*1 shorter than the fifth, and the fourth 
5 shorter than the same. , 
