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smaller upper tail-coverts, and almost entirely want the black 

 encirclincp band. 



The tail is black, the basal three-fourths or more, profusely 

 variegated with irregular, transverse, zig-zaggy bars, of a 

 warm buff color, more ov less ferruginous on ithe lateral tail 

 feathers ; the exterior tail feathers of ail are fully two inches 

 shorter than the rest, and are only blackish brown and show a 

 dull imperfect rufous buff tipping ; a faint trace of the same on 

 the next pair ; the primaries and their greater coverts and the 

 secondaries are black variegated like the tail; the markincrs 

 on the secondaries being, however, paler and yellower; the 

 winglet, the two longest feathers of which are longer than the 

 primary greater coverts, and have the outer webs a uniform 

 rich ferruginous orange buff, form a conspicuous longitudinal 

 band on the anterior portion of the wing — a feature common to 

 Ceriornis satyra ; the shoulder of the wing a sort of orano-e 

 maroon ; the tertiaries and the rest of the coverts much like 

 the back, except that the pearly grey spots are larger, and 

 that the feathers are here and there variegated with zig-zao-o-y 

 irregular spots, patches or bars, of yellowish white to ferru- 

 ginous buff, set in black,, which, however, are only conspicuous 

 on the tertiaries ; the edge of the wing and the smaller lower 

 wing-coverts orange buff, the feathers washed at the tips with 

 maroon. 



The breast and entire lower parts, except the tibial plumes 

 and the longest lower tail-coverts, mingled rich maroon and 

 delicate French grey ; the feathers of the breast and upper 

 abdomen being maroon, with a huge terminal oval grey spot 

 which, in all the feathers of the breast, goes quite, or almost 

 quite, to the end of the feather, while, in the feathers of the lower 

 abdomen and flanks, there is a perceptible, though narrow 

 maroon fringe left beyond the grey spot, and in the lesser and 

 median lower tail-coverts this fringe is so much more developed 

 that the grey spots are only subterminal ; the longest lower 

 tail-coverts are blackish brown, with a rufous ferruo-inous shaft 

 and traces of imperfect bars of the same color, and washed 

 towards the margins and tips with rusty maroon. On the 

 sides of the body opposite the breast, and again in places on the 

 flanks, traces of the basal portions of the feathers, black 

 variegated with irregular zig-zaggy transverse bars of white or 

 buffy white, are visible where the feathers are disturbed • 

 whether they would be so in life I cannot say. The tibial 

 plumes are orange ferruginous, tinged with maroon. 



Mr. Elliotts plate, beautiful as it is, completely hides the 

 anterior portion of the wing. I cannot, therefore, be certain 

 that the true temmincki exhibits the peculiar coloration of the 



