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of neck, breast, belly, and flanks greyish white, the grey almost 

 obsolete along the centre of the abdomen ; axillaries a-nd wing 

 lining pure white. Tibial plumes tinged buffy ; lower tail 

 coverts, a very pale cinnamon ; whole top of the head grey, the 

 feathers obscurely centred paler. A large, ill-defined, some- 

 what triangular, greyish brown patch on the nape, below which 

 the base of the neck and the upper portion of the outer scapu- 

 lary region are grey like the crown, but some of the feathers 

 with obscure brown striations ; the whole of the rest of the back 

 a rather dark earth brown ; the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 very pale buff, or buffy white ; this color and the brown of the 

 lower back not blended, but separating, on a well-defined line. 

 Tail feathers dark hair brown, with a bronzy lustre, no pale tip- 

 pings, but the whole outer webs of the exterior lateral feathers, 

 except just at the tips, synchromatic with lower tail-coverts; 

 scapulars earth brown, broadly tipped with greyish or yellowish 

 white, which is the only color visible until the feathers are 

 lifted ; wings hair brown ; the median coverts tipped with yel- 

 lowish white ; the lesser coverts not so dark as the greater 

 coverts, and these again not quite so dark, except those 

 of the primaries, as the quills ; the edge of the wing 

 just above the base of the primaries yellowish white ; 

 the second to the fourth primary conspicuously margined on 

 the outer web with pale ferruginous ; the first three or four 

 secondaries with the outer webs pale brownish white, for the 

 basal one to two-thirds ; tertiaries with more or less conspicuous 

 yellowish white spots at the tips ; quills and greater coverts 

 generally with more or less of a bronzy lustre. 



Females. — These are very similar, but have the chin, under 

 tail-coverts and tibial plumes white ; the head brown like the 

 back ; the upper portion of the interscapulary region, pale 

 whity brown instead of grey ; the rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 and the margins to the primaries, and the outer webs of the 

 outer tail -coverts dingy brownish white. 



690.— Pastor roseus, Lin. (0.) 



Colonel Tytler says that " several of these birds arrive in 

 flocks in January." We have been unable to verify this fact. 

 Davison w r as specially on the look-out for them, but never saw 

 them, nor do we know that any one has ever observed them 

 except Colonel Tytler ; but Colonel Tytler knew the bird well, 

 so that we may accept the fact that in some years they do 

 make their appearance in the islands. They can only however 

 at present be classed as accideutal visitants. 



