UPLAND SHOOTING. 95 



" Adult Male. 



" Bill a little longer tliau the head, slender, straight, slightly 

 deflected at the end. Uppei mandible with the dorsal line 

 straight, the edges convex, the sides grooved beyond the middle, 

 afterward convex, the edges inflected, the tips a little deflected, 

 and tapering to an obtuse point. Nostrils sub-basal, lateral, 

 linear, pervious, nearer the edge than the dorsal line. Lower 

 mandible. Avith the angle very narrow and elongated, beyond it 

 the outline slightly convex, the sides sloping outward and con- 

 cave until the middle, afterward flattened, the edges sharp, the 

 point very narrow. 



"Head rather small, convex above, compressed. Neck of 

 moderate length, slender. Body rather slender. Feet long and 

 slender, tibia bare about half its length, scutellate before and 

 behind ; tarsus long, slender, having before and behind numerous 

 scutella ; the narrow lateral spaces with very small, oblong 

 scales. Toes slender ; the first very short, the second much 

 shorter than the fourth, the third and fourth connected at the 

 base by a web ; the scutella numerous ; claws small, compressed, 

 slightly arched, rather blunt. 



" Plumage soft ; on the neck and lower parts blended ; on the 

 upper rather distinct. Wings rather long, acute, narrow. Pri- 

 maries tapering and rounded ; the first longest, the second a little 

 shorter, the rest rapidly graduated ; secondari es obliquely round- 

 ed, the inner elongated and tapering. Tail of moderate length, 

 much rounded, of twelve rather narrow feathers. 



" Bill yellowish-green, tip dusky, the edges toward the base 

 yellow. Iris dark hazel. Legs and tarsi light yellowish-gray, 

 toes rather darker, claws brownish-black. Upper part of the 

 head dark brown, with a median pale yellowish brown line ; 

 the margins of the feathers also of that color which prevails 

 along the sides of the head and the back of the neck, which are 

 streaked with dusky ; the eye surrounded with yellowish-white. 

 Throat yellowish-white, without spots ; forepart and sides of the 

 neck, with a portion of the breast and sides of the body, cream- 

 colored, with dusky lines, which gradually become arrow-shaped 



