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deep black; bill and feet black." The colouration of 

 the female's plumage is very different, the whole of the 

 upper surface being grayish-brown; wings and tail 

 margined with ferruginous; under surface deep buff, 

 each feather bearing a black mark near the tip. 



TERMITES' CLAY HOME ON CEDAR; NESTING PLACE 

 OF FOREST KINGFISHER. 



A memorable day was spent on Stott's Island, a 

 reserve some two miles below Tumbulgum. We sailed 

 down the river in a fishing boat, and had to tack a 

 dozen times owing to the direction of the wind. The 

 boat was brought close to the island shore, where a 

 break appeared in the jungle, and we leaped from the 

 bows on to a tangle of roots, which rose, like the ribs 



