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whatever; they are like the rest on their upper sur- 

 face, i. e. cinereous at their basal half and black on 

 their outer half. Be this as it may, our species is 

 pretty well described by Dr. Wagler, whose specific 

 name we consequently adopt. The feet, for the size 

 of the bird, no less than the tail, are very large. 



Size small. General colour of the plumage above 

 light brown, strongly tinged with cinereous, parti- 

 cularly on the wing-covers, or the ground colour may 

 be called greyish brown ; the front of the head is 

 nearly white, which gradually changes on the crown 

 to a delicate lead-colour ; across the lower part of 

 the back there is a very distinct cream-colour or 

 brownish-white band, margined both above and 

 below by a band of deep black, the lower of which 

 is broadest ; the tail-covers above are tipt with 

 black, so as to form three transverse bands, two 

 narrow, and one, which is the last, twice the breadth 

 of the others; these are probably what Le Yail- 

 lant has mistaken for bands upon the tail-feathers. 

 Three or four of the scapular cover of the quills have 

 a large oval spot of black richly glossed with purple 

 only, but no green, and the inner half of all the 

 greater covers are black. The quills, spurious 

 wings, and inner wing-covers, are deep and bright 

 rufous tipt with black, the two outer quills mar- 

 gined also with black. Under plumage delicate 

 pale vinaceous, changing to white on the belly, 

 vent, and side tail-covers ; under tail-covers and the 

 tail itself deep-black, the outermost feather exter- 

 nally white for one-half its length, and tipt with 



