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Tatare vaughani. (Plate I.) 



Tatare vaughani Sharpe,. Bull. B. O. C. vol. xi. p. 2 

 (October 1900). 



Five specimens: 3*ad. females, 1 young female, unci 1 sex 

 uncertain. 



Adult. Iris black; bill pule brown; tarsi and toes bluish 

 grey. 



As Tatar, vaughani has-been only shortly diagnosed in 

 the original description, I append a brief account of my 

 specimens : — 



(a) Adidt female. Crown and mantle dark olive-brown, 

 the feathers edged with] pale yellow ; nape of neck paler ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts pale brown. Primary-coverts 

 like the back ; some of the greater wing-coverts brown 

 and others white. Rectrices 12 in number, white with a 

 pale lemon-yellow Avash ; remiges principally white, although 

 some of the quills are partly brown, the long secondaries 

 being mostly brown. Chin pale yellow, the feathers of 

 the throat yellow with pale brown bases. Abdomen 

 pale yellow ; flanks slightly washed with tawny. Under 

 tail-coverts pale tawny buff. Iris black, bill pale brown, tarsi 

 and toes bluish grey. Whole length 0*5 inches, wing 2*9, 

 tail 3-0. 



(b) Female, which I take to be a younger bird, has more 

 brown in the wings and a brown feather in the tail. The 

 wings are very irregularly 'marked with brown. In speci- 

 men (a) the first primary of one wing is white, while that 

 of the other wing is brown with a white tip. 



(c) Female, apparently also immature, has several of the 

 feathers of both wings and tail brown. 



(d) Immature. Mantle rufous brown ; crown and nape 

 slightly paler; wings dark brown, the primaries and wing- 

 coverts edged with pale rufous brown. Tail dark brown, 

 almost black ; in some lights paler transverse bars may be 

 seen on the rectrices. Chin and upper throat rufous buff, 

 flanks paler ; middle of abdomen nearly white ; under tail- 

 coverts rufous buff. 



(e) One of the immature examples has a white feather 



