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abdomen above vent chestnut, each feather margined with pale 

 chestnut buff; thighs, vent and posterior flanks dull brown ; under 

 tail-coverts brown, or chestnut brown, vermiculated with black. 



The sparse feathers on the naked part round the eye are dark 

 brown, but hardly show except in a fine line under the lower 

 eyelid. 



Individuals, both of typical specimens of spadicea and of its tM'O 

 races, have a few of the feathers of the breast with grey centres, 

 which, as Ogilvie-Grant has pointed out, appear to be indicative 

 neither of age, locality nor season. 



Colours of Soft Parts. — Iris yellow, yellowish brown or dull 

 hazel brown ; naked skin round the eye brick-red, dull and often 

 somewhat livid in the non-breeding season, but brighter and redder 

 in the breeding season ; bill horny-brown, reddish at the base and 

 paler on the lower mandible ; legs generally reddish brick, often 

 reddish-brown, sometimes almost reddish-yellow or, ver}^ rarely, 

 with a faint greenish tinge ; spurs dull horny brown. 



Measureirvents. — Wing from 145 to 166 mm., average 32 speci- 

 mens, 156-1 mm.; tail from 123 to 147 mm., ayerage 137*5 mm.; 

 tarsus from 48 to 52 mm.; bill from front about 20 mm., from 

 gape rather over 25 mm. 



Adult Female. — Forehead sandy brown, changing to brown and 

 blackisli-brown on crown and nape; neck dark brown. Back, sca- 

 pulars and wing-coverts grey or sandy, rarely with a faint rufous 

 tinge, each feather with two bold bars of black ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts the same, but with less black and, generalljr, a more 

 rufous tinge ; tail blackish, the central feathers with mottled bars 

 Qf buff or rufous, decreasing in extent until they only form a 

 mottled edging to the outermost. 



Chin and throat almost white, changing to dirty pale brown on 

 foreneck ; breast and flanks rather pale chestnut rufous, each fea- 

 ther with a terminal band of black, lessening in extent towards the 

 vent ; the posterior flanks often mottled with black in addition to 

 the bars ; vent and under tail-covert dull brown, the latter mottled 

 with black and rufous or sandy. 



The extent of the black on the lower parts varies considerably, in 

 some the extreme upper breast and anterior flanks being very heavily 

 barred. Wing-coverts and innermost secondaries like the back ; 

 primaries and outer secondaries amber brown. 



Colours of Soft Parts. — As in the male, but the bare skin round 

 the eye is cKTiler and less clear a red, and the legs never become so 

 red as they do in some breeding males and often are more brown 

 or even greenish-brown. 



2Ieasitrements. — Wing from 134 to 163 mm., average of 24 speci- 

 mens 150*1 mm.; tail from 118 to 146 mm., average 129*1 

 mm.* tarsus 45 to 49 mm. ; bill from front about 20 mm., and 



