POLYBOEOIDES TYPICUS. 



or brownish red lines. Legs and toes light ochre-yellow ; claws liver- brown 

 with a tinge of reddish brown towards the base. Bill liver-brown ; cere, base 

 of lower mandible, naked space on sides of head, and the eyes yellow. 



(Young.) Plate LXXXII. 



Front yellowish white sparingly streaked with iimber-brown ; the upper 

 surface of the head and the nape light umber-brown, the feathers of former 

 broadly, those of latter narrowly edged and tipped with yellowish brown ; the 

 back and sides of the neck, the interscapulars, the back, the lesser wing coverts 

 and the secondary quill coverts intermediate between umber and yellowish 

 brown and faintly glossed with purplish red, — all the feathers narrowly edged 

 and tipped with yellowish brown. Primary quill coverts liver-brown with a 

 purplish gloss, and tipped narrowly with yellowish brown ; tertiary quill 

 feathers dull yellowish brown indistinctly barred with umber-brown. Tail 

 the same colour as the primary quill feathers and crossed with four dull 

 yellowish brown bars, each of which is edged anteriorly and posteriorly with 

 a lighter tint, — the tips of all the feathers yellowish-brown. Chin and throat 

 yellowish white variegated with longitudinal umber-brown streaks ; breast 

 and belly yellowish brown deadened with umber-brown ; thighs, vent and 

 under tail coverts pale yellowish brown barred with a colour intermediate be- 

 tween iHTiber and yellowish brown. Tarsi yellowish white ; toes a livid 

 ochrey white. Cere, base of lower and edges of upper mandible towards base 

 yellow, the bill elsewhere liver-brown. Eyes yellow. 



Form, &c. — Figure slender; head rather small, and its sides before and 

 behind the eye denuded of feathers ; the feathers of nape and of the back and 

 sides of the neck rather elongated. Wings long, pointed, and when folded 

 reach to within two inches of the tip of the tail, the fourth and fifth feathers 

 the longest, the third and sixth equal and rather shorter, the second about an 

 inch and a half shorter than the third, and the first about three inches shorter 

 than the second. Tail large and rounded, or fan-shaped. Tarsi and toes ex- 

 cept the last joint reticulated, the scales of the former rather large, of the latter 

 small, the last joint of each toe superiorly covered with three or four short 

 prominent transverse plates ; tarsi compressed ; under-surface of toes finely 

 granular; claws long, pointed, much curved, compressed and moderately 

 strong. Bill considerably hooked at the point ; nostrils situated in the cere 

 in the form of a longitudinal fissure about half-way between the culmen and 

 cutting edge of the upper mandible. 



