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either side. The quill-feathers of the wing are alternately 

 cross-barred with two shades of earthy brown, the external 

 webs being tinged with fulvous at the interspaces between 

 the dark bars, a character which is more conspicuous in A 

 than in the other two specimens ; at the bases of the fea- 

 thers these interspaces are white towards the margin of the 

 inner Aveb, and most so on the tertials. The tail is a dark 

 earth-brown ; some of the lateral rectrices are cross- 

 barred with a paler brown on the inner webs in A, but 

 not in B and C. The cheeks are greyish brown ; the under 

 surface of the body from the throat to the crissum is a rufous- 

 brown, mingled with white, the rufous tint being brighter in 

 A and B than in C ; in A the rufous-brown is crossed, here 

 and there, with imperfect blackish-brown bars ; these are less 

 apparent in B and absent in C ; the white portions of the 

 feathers of the under surface are in the form of edgings, and 

 occasionally also of cross bars and of spots, the latter, when 

 they exist, being on the edge of the feathers. The tibife are a 

 fulvous brown, mottled with a darker brown ; the under 

 wing-coverts are coloured somewhat similarly to the tibiae, 

 except the lowest row, which, with the axillarits^ are dark 

 brown, crossed with white. 



Mr. Ramsay's N. terricolor appears, from his description, 

 to bear a great resemblance in coloration to the present 

 species, except as regards the tail, all the rectrices of which 

 would seem, by his account, to be crossbarred, and not the 

 lateral ones only, the interspaces being " white at the base," 

 like those on the inner webs of the quill-feathers of the wing. 

 At the same time, though the birds I have described difi'er 

 from iV. terricolor in these particulars, specimen A has a tail 

 more approaching the description of the tail in that species 

 than is the case in B. In C the tail is, unfortunately, very 

 imperfect ; but the remains of it appear to resemble the tail 

 iuB. 



Should the birds now acqiiired for the Norwich Museum 

 prove to be distinct from N. terricolor, I would propose that 

 they should bear the specific or subspecific name oi goldii^ 

 after their discoverer. The considerable difference in size, I 



