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are, perhaps, slightly larger. The following is a resume of the 

 dimensions of four birds of both sexes : — 



" Length, 6"95 to 7*25 ; expanse, 10 - 8; tail, from vent, 2'7 to 

 2*9; wing, 34; bill, from gape, 09 to - 94; tarsus, 0'79 

 to 0-83. 



" The bill is a light, clear blue, paler on the culmen and waxen 

 orange at the gape, the base of lower mandible, the nostrils, and 

 the junction of the upper mandible with the forehead. The inside 

 of the mouth is a rich orange ; eyelids, greenish yellow, purer yellow 

 at the angle ; irides, dark brown ; legs, greenish orange ; claws, 

 light blue/' 



The sexes, as already noticed, only differ in that the females 

 have a narrow white satin band running across the side of the 

 neck from behind the ear coverts and meeting in front, at the base 

 of the throat, where the band in fine specimens has two or three 

 reduplications. The adult males want these white satin marks 

 altogether. 



The lores and the feathers at the gape are pale brownish 

 rufous ; from above the lores, almost, but not quite, from the nostrils, 

 a strongly marked black stripe proceeds backwards over the eyes 

 and ear coverts to the nape, broadening- posteriorly, especially over 

 the ear coverts. The forehead, and the whole space enclosed 

 between these black stripes, is a sort of dove grey, everywhere 

 tinged, except quite on the forehead, with pale, slightly rusty, 

 brown; this tinge is much fainter in some specimens than in 

 others, and is always strongest posteriorly. The scapulars and 

 interscapulary region, a grey brown, more or less tinged with the 

 same color as the nape ; where the head and nape are faintly 

 tinged, there the scapulars and interscapulary region are scarcely 

 tinged at all ; and in fact they are always less strongly tinged 

 than the nape and occiput. The rump, upper tail coverts, ter- 

 tiaries, and a spot at the tips of the inner webs of the secondaries 

 and later primaries, pale ferruginous, palest on the tertials, but 

 brightening considerably on the longer upper tail coverts. The 

 tail is black ; the three lateral tail feathers on either side broadly 

 tipped with white. The wing coverts and the first primary, black ; 

 the edge of the wing, greyish white, and a large white spot on the 

 inner web of first primary near the base. The rest of the pri- 

 maries and secondaries have a broad, dull, pale blue band, on the 

 outer webs, broader on the fifth primary, and rising under the 

 greater coverts. The rest of the outer webs "are black, except 

 for a pretty broad white tipping on the third and fourth primaries, 

 and a very narrow pale blue or bluish white tipping to the other 

 feathers. On the inner webs, as already mentioned, the sixth and 

 succeeding primaries and the secondaries are tipped with pale 

 ferruginous ; above this they are blackish brown, with a huge 

 white band towards their bases. The second primary is very 



