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though I never saw it, near Pahpoon, and Captain Bingham shot 

 one near the Sinzaway reserve ou the Younzaleen. — W. D.] 



The following are the dimensions and colors of the soft parts 

 recorded in the flesh from a fine adult male and female : — 



Male. — Length, 24*5; expause, 25'25 ; tail from vent, 12-6 ; 

 wing, 8-2J tarsus, 29; bill from gape, 1/35 ; weight, 



Female. — Length, 19'0 : expanse, 23 - 5 ; tail, 8'3; wing, 7*1 ; 

 tarsus, 2*5 ; bill from gape, 1*25 ; weight, 14 ozs. 



In the male the legs and feet were blackish ; the claws black ; 

 upper mandible and tip of lower mandible black ; rest of lower 

 mandible and facial skin pale yellow ; irides white. The female 

 had the legs and feet very dark plumbeous ; upper mandible dark 

 horny brown, paler on cere ; lower mandible pale brown ; irides 

 deep grey ; facial skin pale dingy fleshy yellow. 



The male has been already fully described under Temminck's 

 name ckinquis, S. F., V., 40. 



The female is a much smaller bird and has less of a brush 

 crest; the chin and throat greyish white ; the whole of the rest 

 of the head and neck all round rather dark brown, very finely 

 and obsoletely barred with a lighter and more fulvous shade of 

 brown, and decidedly shaded greyer on the forehead and crown ; 

 and many or most of the feathers of the lower half of the neck, 

 especially in the front and at the sides, with minute white shaft 

 specks or spots ; the primaries and their greater coverts plain 

 glossy rather pale brown, of a peculiar tinge, approaching some- 

 what to liver brown ; the whole of the rest of the visible por- 

 tions of the closed wings and scapulars, and interscapulary re- 

 gion, hair brown ; the feathers with somewhat widely separated 

 irregular narrow speckly transverse bars of pale buff, in places 

 ferruginous buff ; the feathers are margined at the tips with a 

 similar band of somewhat coalescing speckles and spots which 

 are white or nearly so, in most specimens; inside this the tip of 

 the feather is black or blackish, with in many cases a faint dull 

 purplish gloss in parts. This again is bounded above, by an 

 imperfect transverse speckly bar, which, like that of the tip, is 

 white or nearly so. The rest of the back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts brown, excessively minutely pencilled and stippled with 

 buffy brown ; most of the feathers more or less white shafted 

 and with a tiny white spot on the shaft just at the tip ; the 

 longer upper tail-coverts and tail are the same hair brown, with 

 numerous widely separated, irregular imperfect transverse 

 bands of spots and specks, whiter on the tips of the longer tail- 

 coverts, buffy elsewhere ; each of the tail feathers has near the 

 tip a small imperfect dusky metallic green occellum, surround- 

 ed by an ill-defined blackish band and very inconspicuous. In 



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