ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 113 



N° 282S of my Collection. - Adult female. — Ghloro- 

 chrostic-isabelline variety. 



Bill greenish-orange, shaded with black on the centre, 

 unguis black ; irides hazel ; head and neck also on the 

 loreside, as a normal one as to design, but with very 

 niuch faded tints, in way hovvever that are seen perfectly 

 on the head and on the sides of the same the dark 

 centres of the fcathers and the buffish edges ; high 

 back dark pearl-ash on all the visible portion of every 

 feather with a lively reddish-buff edge, in some feathers 

 small lines with brown or black zig-zags almost impercep- 

 tible ; superior part of the body pearl-ash here and 

 there sky-coloured with rather broad reddish edges a 

 little darker and brownish on the back and broader by 

 degrees as we approach the upper tail-coverts, which 

 are totally of a reddish tint, but more especially on the 

 centre of feathers ; chin and throat unspotted lightreddish- 

 isabelline ; breast rather lively reddish-butf with small 

 brownish lines crossing on every feather, these small 

 lines are sometimes of a zig-zag form and they are preceded 

 or foUowed by irregulär Spaces, which as design resemble 

 the spots which generally the boscas female has in those 

 parts, bul their colouris so faded that one sees very little 

 Ihe analogy ; abdomen unspotted reddish-whitish ; here 

 and there the feathers become dark, so that the design is 

 not uniform; the tint of abdomen towards the under lail- 

 coverts is more whitish ; median and lesser wing-coverts 

 light pearl-ash, here and there rather sky-coloured, 

 edged at the top and on sides of brownish, lighter and 

 whitish on the feathers near to the outer margin ofwings, 

 the greater ones whitish towards the top and tipped of 

 blackishash, with a whitish edge onthe outermost ones, 

 so that the double crossing band exists, but it is almost 

 imperccptible ; primaries white on the shaft as far as 

 towards the tipwhere it is brownish-reddish, secondaries 

 pearl-grey on the inner web, brownish on the outer, 

 broadly tipped with white; does not exist any trace of 

 metallic tint, but no less there are white spaces, instead 



