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changing from a very dark and apparently almost black uniform 

 colour, to nearly pure white on the breast and neck, with white 

 markings on the wings. One .he describes as being almost 

 entirely dark brown, with a few light spots about the neck 

 and shoulders, and the tail as having three bars of very dark 

 brown the spaces between them being divided by narrower 

 bars of a lighter tint than the former, but darker than the 

 ground colour of the tail itself. A second, (described in a 

 postscript, at page 795,) of which the predominant colour was 

 a light brown, rather darker on the back. The feathers round 

 the neck, and also on the breast and legs, had dark margins ; 

 the quill feathers, black; secondaries, dark brown; tertiaries, 

 lighter all these parts exhibiting a beautiful purple gloss; 

 tip of the tail, light yellow, barred like the other; cere, pale 

 yellow ; iris, grey. The third variety in this interesting series 

 had the head, breast, and back of a light brown, with streaks 

 and blots of a darker colour. The wings, dark brown with 

 light tips; quills nearly black with light tips. The tail, like 

 that of the first described, but more of a yellowish brown, 

 tipped with the same. The fourth had the feathers on the 

 top of the head and neck of a dark brown, with light tips, 

 giving those parts a mottled appearance; round the eye, and 

 between the eye and the bill, dark ash grey; a large patch of 

 dark brown on the breast. The wings tipped with light brown, 

 approaching to white on the quill feathers and secondaries; 

 tail, as in the bird last described. In the fifth, the whole head 

 light ash grey; wings, dark brown tipped with a lighter shade 

 of the same; all the under parts white barred with brown. 

 The tail, nearly like that of the last, but with a fourth bar, 

 or several patches in the form of a bar, at the upper end, 

 tipped with light yellow brown. The sixth had the forehead 

 white; breast, white, with some patches of brown; round the 

 eye and between it and the bill, dark ash grey; neck, white, 

 with some dashes of brown; upper part of the wings, white, 

 slightly dashed with brown; secondaries and tertiaries, brown 

 tipped with white. The tail, barred with two shades of dark 

 brown, and tipped with light brown. The seventh had the 

 wings alone tipped with white, as also the secondaries and 

 tertiaries, the under parts without the brown patches, and the 

 dark streaks much narrowed. The tail as in the last. 



Variations of plumage occur in this species as in so many 

 others. In one described by Montagu, the breast was light 

 brown; and in another, described by the Hon. H. T. Liddell, 



