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2. Crop: red clover, a few seeds of Italian rye-grass and knotgrass. 
8. Crop: same as No, 2, with a few seeds of mouse-eared chickweed. 
4. Crop: knotgrass and red clover, a few seeds of trefoil, Italian rye- 
grass, perennial rye-grass and meadow-fescue. Gizzard: five-sixths of 
bulk, small fragments of white quartz; seeds, knotgrass, goose-foot, alsyke, 
and Italian rye-grass. 
5. Crop: red clover, Italian rye-grass, knotgrass, and goose-foot. 
6. Crop: same as No. 5. 
7. Crop: knotgrass, goose-foot, mouse-eared chickweed, Italian rye- 
grass. Gizzard: one-third of bulk, white quartz; seeds same as crop. 
Plumage, dimensions, weight, de.:— 
1. Male; length, 16-9; wing, 9°4; central tail-feathers, 7°6 ; weight, 93 oz. 
2,Female; ,, 151; ,, 82; ¥ 52s et Oaeees 
3. Male. 
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ae ti ssi LG SDY5 pts ses Ose: 9 Tbs a) Bes 
Gress » 16.3; 4, 8:55; , 3 6'3:5-) hss 
7. Female; A IIBROS So essere * 4:0)3:.° 55 9S 
The birds were in fair condition; the female, No. 2, was very 
fat—hence her weight, for she had little in her crop. The eggs 
in this bird and No. 7 were about the size of No. 4 shot. The 
testes in the male were well developed; in No. 1 the left testicle 
was °48 x °22, right 42 <°3; in No. 5 the left was °42 x °32, 
right ‘26 x°26. The plumage was clean, though bleached and 
worn. The birds which passed through my hands had cast a 
few of the inner primaries and the secondaries, giving the wing 
a very peculiar indentation. In No. 1, the new primaries 
(the ninth and tenth) project about one inch beyond the 
coverts, are lavender along each side of the shaft, gradually 
shading to black towards the edges and tips, the edges rich 
buff ‘2 wide; the new secondaries rich buff, with black stripe *3 in 
width, along outer web, leaving a narrow border of buff; one 
of the central rectrices, new, 4 in. long. No.4 has the colours 
the brightest of any I have seen. Abdominal band rich velvety 
black ; pencillings of chest-band very clear; three inner primaries 
moulted. No. 7, female, is the most forward in moult. A few 
scapulars, one of the elongated tail-feathers, 3°8 in. in length; 
the secondaries, and the three inner primaries with their coverts, 
new; the eighth and ninth primaries almost full-grown; the 
