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the edge of the shoulder is also barred with white ; primaries dark 

 brown edged and tipped with white, the edges broadest on the 

 outermost quill and almost disappearing on the innermost ; 

 secondaries dark brown, tipped white with frecklings of rufous and 

 black at the tip which in the inner secondaries become regular 

 bars throughout the whole length of the feathers. 



Bill greenish plumbeous, darkest at the tip where it is almost 

 black, and yellowish at the base of the lower mandible ; iris dark 

 brown ; feet and legs pale yellowish plumbeous, the soles yellow 

 ochre and claws horny brown. 



" Bill plumbeous, black at tip, base of lower mandible yellowish 

 brown ; feet dull olive or pale yellowish green, the soles yellowish ; 

 claws horny black; iris dark brown " (Scully). 



"Total length 11 inches, culmen 2-9", wing 6-3", tail 2-3", 

 tarsus 1-3"" (Sharpe). 



"Wing 6-25" to 6-8"; bill 2-52" to 2-87" (no male above 

 2-77") ; weight 5 oz. to 8 oz. " (Hume). 



" The irides are dark brown ; the legs and feet in adults are 

 dull olive or yellowish green, or greenish or dull pale yellow — in 

 young birds ashy with a greenish tinge ; the claws black or brown- 

 ish black ; the terminal one-third of the bill is black or brownish 

 black, the basal portions generally yellowish brown, bluish along 

 commissure, but the upper mandible often has a greenish ashy or 

 plumbeous, or vinous or fleslry tinge, and sometimes is plumbeous 

 everywhere except at the dark tip " (Hume). 



Adult female. — Similar to the male. 



"Total length 11 inches,- culmen 2-8", wing 6-0", tail 2-5", 

 tarsus 1-3" " (Sharpe). 



" The sexes do not, judged by my measurements, appear to 

 differ appreciably in size, but the three largest birds measured were 

 females and the two smallest males, so that probably, age for age, 

 if one could make sure of this, the females are the largest" 

 (Hume). 



Measurements of the specimens in the Bombay Natural History 

 Society's possession and in the Asiatic Museum together with a 

 few others which have passed through my hands do not shew much 

 variation in size between the male and female. The average 



