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round or oval spots ; the secondaries are barred 

 with white, tinted with reddish brown at the 

 margin of the bands. The tail is not so ample 

 as in Tengmalnii, and is crossed with about four 

 ochraceous bands ; the under parts yellowish white, 

 streaked or clouded with liver brown, the mark- 

 ings indistinct from the loose webs of one feather 

 lying over another ; the tarsi are yellowish white. 

 In this species, the bill seems to be yellow in a 

 fresh state ; in the preceding, it is gray or bluish 

 white. Length, from crown to extremity of tail, 

 about eight and a half inches. 



This bird can also only be looked on as ; ; 

 straggler, and the localities where specimens have 

 been killed have not been authentically recorded. 

 Mr Gould, however, assures me that several fresh 

 specimens were to be seen in London during last 

 spring. One came into the possession of Mr 

 Leadbetter.* 



* Mr Yarrell, in his Third Number, mentions several 

 instances rf : ts occurrence in England. 



