1875.] ON THE DEEP PLANTAR TENDONS IN BIRDS. 339 
distinguished the species, and it has a tolerably distinct crest. I 
subjoin a description of this adult bird :— 
Adult. Above clear brown, with a purplish shade, many of the 
feathers with paler. edgings, especially the upper wing-coverts ; 
spurious quills and primary coverts uniform purplish black, with a 
very slightly indicated whitish tip; quills purplish brown, barred 
across with black on the inner web, these black bars more distinct 
on the secondaries, which are paler and are barred across, the tips 
being conspicuously white, the innermost secondaries uniform pale 
brown like the back ; lower back and rump rather darker brown ; the 
upper tail-coverts very light, tipped and barred externally with 
white ; tail grey, tipped with white, and crossed with eight blackish 
bars, the subterminal one rather the broadest; forehead whitish ; 
crown of the head purplish black, the feathers lanceolate and forming 
an occipital crest ; sides of the face and neck all round tawny-coloured, 
with mesial black shaft-streaks to all the feathers; the ear-coverts 
rather more dingy brown but narrowly streaked with black in the 
same manner, these streaks much broader on the cheeks and forming 
a distinct moustache; under surface of the body white, the feathers 
streaked with black on the throat and chest, these streaks disappear- 
ing gradually on the abdomen; many of the throat- and breast- 
feathers washed with pale tawny, as also the flanks—the abdomen, 
thighs, and under tail-coverts having very few of these markings and 
being nearly uniform white; upper wing-coverts white, with a few 
brown streaks, the innermost deep chestnut, streaked with black. 
Total length 21 inches, culmen 1°65, wing 15:7, tail 9°7, tarsus 
about 2°85. 
GyYPOICTINIA MELANOSTERNA (Gould): Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 
335. 
A specimen of this extremely rare Kite is in the collection; and I 
have the pleasure of exhibiting it to the Society. It will be seen 
from the tarsus with its scaled hinder aspect and its long wings that 
the bird is a Kite and not a Buzzard at all. Mr. Gould’s plate in 
the ‘ Birds of Australia’ does not show these peculiarities, and gives 
a wrong idea of the bird in consequence. 
Besides the Hawks above mentioned, Mr. White collected specimens 
of Falco subniger, F. hypoleucus, F. lunulatus, and the rarer Striges, 
such as Strix tenebricosa, &c. 
6. On the Disposition of the Deep Plantar Tendons in differ- 
ent Birds. By A. H. Garrop, B.A., F.Z.S., Fellow of 
St. John’s College, Cambridge, Prosector to the Society. 
[Received March 30, 1875.] 
The arrangement of the tendons in the palm of the hand and the 
sole of the foot among the Mammalia is a subject of great intricacy, as 
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