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nest, but when she became aware that I was noticing her, slie 

 crouched down, and not even her head was visible. I pelted 

 some half a dozen stones, when she flew and settled on a branch 

 close by, and on my knocking- her over she uttered a few shrill 

 screams like L. caligatus. I sent a man up and found a callow 

 young which could not have been more than a week old. This 

 female measured : — Length, 26*75 ; expanse, 57*0 ; wing, 16*50 ; 

 tail from vent, 12*0; tarsus, 4*25 ; bill from gape, 1'92; bill 

 at front, 1*58; closed wings fall short of end of tail, 4*33. 

 Feet dirty yellow ; bill and cere black ; nostrils light yellow ; 

 irides, upper half golden yellow, lower half bright orange ; 

 orbits pale fleshy, clothed with white down ; mouth inside fleshy 

 with patches of blue. 



The irides of the young bird were a light brown bill and 

 cere black; legs and feet a light bluish green; claws black. 

 By the 21st June feathers commenced sprouting on the wings, 

 scapulars and tail, all of a jet black ; and a week later the 

 feathers of the tarsus appeared ; these were jet black too.* 

 I weighed him on the 10th June, when he scaled lib. 2£oz. 

 He used to eat the flesh of every kind of bird except that 

 of Ilierococcijx which he would always throw up. Why was 

 this ? He would not do this with Owl's and Hawk's flesh. On the 

 morning of the 30th June I found him dead. The lazy rascal 

 of a servant, to save himself the trouble of feeding it several 

 times, had stuffed its maw so much that the bird must have died 

 of suffocation. I forgot to mentiou that in the nest under the 

 chick were four twigs with green leaves of the u Jamoon" 

 tree, which had evidently been broken the very morning- I 

 found them. The young one was then covered with down of 

 a pale dove grey. 



2Qtcr— Spilornis rutherfordi, Smnh. 



1st April 1878, Female. — Length, 24*75; expanse, 52*0; 

 wing, 16*50; tail from vent, 11*25; tarsus, 3*42; bill, from 

 gape, 1*75; bill at front, 1*50; closed wings fall short of end 

 of tail, 2*50. Irides bright yellow, also cere ; bill bluish, black 

 tipped ; legs dirty yellow. 



7ih April 1878, Female. — Length, 23*75 ; expanse, 53*50 ; 

 wing, 16*50; tail from vent, 11*25; tarsus, 3*42; bill from 

 gape, 1*66; bill at front, 1*50; closed wings fall short of end 

 of tail, 2*50. Irides slightly orange yellow ; legs dirty yellow; 

 bill blue, tip black ; cere yellow, brightest towards the eyes. 

 Ovaries contained one imperfect egg about an inch in diameter. 



* This is very important as showing that the young of this species or melaDoicl race 

 is black like the parent. The mother now in my museum is one uniform sooty black. 

 Unfortunately Mr, Cripps did not know the bird, nor the interest attaching to it, and 

 did not watch for or observe the male. — Ed. 



