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and mottled with dark brown ; primary quills barred 

 brown and light yellowish brown ; tail much the 

 same ; breast and belly dull white, streaked and 

 barred with brown and } r ellowish brown ; legs and 

 toes feathered, white, with a few brown streaks ; 

 claws white at the base, dark at the tips. In the 

 young bird of the year the facial disk is more 

 mottled, and the feathers making the edging darker 

 brown and white; head and nape streaked brown 

 and dull yellowish white ; the upper parts have not 

 so much of a yellow tinge as in the adult ; a white 

 streak down the scapulars ; a few white spots also 

 on the greater wing-coverts ; breast immediately 

 under the disk, white with a few dark brown streaks ; 

 rest of the under parts white, streaked and barred 

 with two shades of brown. They differ, however, in 

 plumage at all ages : Meyer says fawn-coloured birds 

 are young females ; reddish brown, young males ; 

 reddish grey, old females; and pale grey, adult 

 males. 



The eggs of this species are white, like those of 

 the three last, but are considerably larger. 



This is the last of the Kaptorial order of birds 

 which I shall be able to include in this list ; and in 

 concluding my remarks on this, the first of the five 

 great Orders, I may say that I am afraid that nearly 

 the whole of the different species included in it are 

 more or less rapidly becoming extinct, not in this 



