spects from the description of Temminck, 1 am inclined to con- 

 sider it merely as a variety. 



Total length (excepting the legs) eight inches and a quarter. 

 The bill is one inch one line long from the gape, and, with the irides, 

 is red. The head and neck above blackish cinereous ; the crown 

 much darker and tinged with brown, the rest of the upper plu- 

 mage uniform reddish-brown ; theedgesof the wing-covers tinged 

 with pale cinereous; the spurious wings and quills greyish- 

 brown ; the chin is white, changing on the throat, neck, breast 

 and their sides to a pale lead-colour, which, on the body, again 

 becomes white ; the feathers on the flanks are blackish or rufous, 

 beautifully margined all round by white, with another internal 

 mark of the same kind ; those on the vent are similarly marked, 

 but on a pale rufous ground ; the thighs are rufous-white ; the 

 under tail-covers rufous, marked by narrow undulated concen- 

 tric lines of black, the ends whitish. The length of the legs 

 (from, the knee to the base of the middle toe) one inch two lines, 

 and from that to the tip of the claw one inch. Legs blueish- 

 purple. Hind toe very short, and elevated above the ground. 



