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coverts light brown, tipped with white, having, one or more semicircles 

 of black. 



Expanse of wings 22 inches; length of fore arm 2|- inches: arm 

 2 inches; from carpo-digital joint to tip of first primary 6 inches 

 7 lines. Primaries brownish black; first quill-feather the longest, 

 its shaft pure white ; outer web very narrow, dark brown, faintly 

 touched at points with white ; inner web white, barred with fourteen 

 rich dark brown bands, which gradually merge into one broad patch, 

 involving the end of the feather for the last inch of its length; second, 

 third, fourth and fifth primaries dark brown, having a few white bars, 

 and being also tipped with white. Secondaries pale brown ; both webs 

 wide, blotted with black, faintly tipped and splashed at the edges with 

 white. Tertials black, edged with white, considerably longer than 

 secondaries, the last feather but one being as long as the third primary 

 and reaching to within half an inch of the base of the tail. 



Tail-feathers twelve in number, wedge-shaped when closed ; four 

 central feathers, the longest S^ inches in length, dark brown in colour, 

 edges and tips orange-white, transversely barred on both vanes with 

 black. Three contiguous feathers on either side rich orange, beauti- 

 fully barred and blotted with black, the last blot assuming somewhat 

 the appearance of an arrow-head ; two outer feathers 2^ inches long, 

 white, with five black bands on outer web ; inner web dashed with 

 orange close to the shaft, and irregularly barred with black ; rump and 

 tail-coverts black, faintly margined with white. 



Length of tibia 2 J inches, feathered to within three-fourths of an inch 

 of the tibia tarsal-joint. Tarsus 2 inches, of a yellow colour, with a 

 slight tinge of green. Toes the same colour as tarsus and tibia ; middle 

 toe 1 inch in length ; outer | inch ; inner f inch ; hinder J inch ; with 

 a slight attempt at webbing between the outer and middle toe; nails 

 dark brown, triangular, curved and excavated. 



Under surface of wings beautifully streaked and barred with silver- 

 gray and white. 



The whole surface of the body was loaded with fat. 



The tongue long, narrow and sharp-pointed, being hastate in 

 shape ; trachea narrow and cylindrical, except at about an inch before 

 its junction with the lungs, where it is slightly dilated. Lungs mode- 

 rately large, firmly adherent and very vascular ; heart normal in size. 

 The stomach was comparatively large, and contained the two elytra 

 and head of the common black beetle, four or five small earth-worms, 

 and a little slimy green herbage. The ca^cal appendages, I regret to 



