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their primeval resting-place, or those that still abide in the 

 place of their hoar antiquity. 



The eggs are described as being four, or thereabouts in 

 number, and of a greenish blue colour, without spots. 



Male; length, seven inches and a half; bill, black; iris, 

 dark brown. Head, crown, and neck all round, and nape, 

 bluish grey; chin, throat, and breast, light chesnut brown. 

 Back, on the upper part, bluish grey, passing into brown on 

 the shoulders; on the remainder principally white, with a few 

 bluish feathers. Greater wing coverts, dark brown, almost 

 blackish, tipped with white; lesser wing coverts, also dark 

 brown, nearly blackish brown. Tail, chesnut brown, the two 

 central feathers rather darker than the others; upper tail 

 coverts, dark brown; under tail coverts, light chesnut brown. 

 Legs and toes, dark reddish brown. 



Female; head and crown, dull brown; neck on the back, 

 dull brown, on the sides pure white; nape, dull brown; some 

 of all these brown feathers are occasionally varied with ash- 

 coloured brown. Chin, throat, and breast, reddish white, with 

 five transverse lines at the end of each feather; back, brown, 

 with some large white spots. Tail, light chesnut brown, the 

 two middle feathers ash-coloured brown. 



Young; head, crown, neck on the back, and nape, light 

 ash-coloured brown, each feather terminated with a spot of 

 greyish white. Chin, throat, and breast, reddish white, much 

 varied with the latter colour, which is again intersected with 

 brown lines. Back, light ash-coloured brown, the feathers 

 terminated with a spot of greyish white. Greater and lesser 

 wing coverts, edged with grey and tipped with white; primaries 

 and secondaries, tipped with white. Tail, red, tipped with 

 white. 



For a description of this bird I am indebted to Mr. 

 Yarrell's work. 



