544 Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, <Sfc. 



striations coalescing into broad black bars, with a few pale buff 

 spots sparsely scattered. Crown with black spots and an ill- 

 defined median line of pale buff spots. Scapulars the same as 

 the back, with the side feathers tinged with red. Wing-coverts 

 light yellowish-buff, clouded with pale brown ; most of the fea- 

 thers barred with long deep brown or black spots. Quills 

 hair-brown, paler at the margin and towards the tip. The 

 carpal quill of wing-coverts broadly edged with creamy-white. 

 Edge of wing and outer quill of wing the same, the second less 

 so. Tail soft, and hard to distinguish. Under wing-coverts pale 

 brown. Throat, eyebrow, belly, and thighs nearly white, some 

 of the feathers of the two first tipped with black. Cheeks nearly 

 white, mottled with black. Breast, flanks, and vent deep rich buff; 

 the lateral feathers of the two first paler and yellower, with deep 

 brownish-black bars and spots. The mottling of the plumage 

 in many places too intricate to describe. Iris pale yellow, nearly 

 white. Eyelid black. Inside of mouth yellowish white, washed 

 with inky. Bill yellowish-white, with a tinge of indigo, black- 

 ish on the nostrils, culmen, and tip. Legs, toes, and claws yel- 

 lowish-white, washed with indigo. Length 6 inches; wing 3'5 

 inches ; bill, from forehead, '58 in., from gape '75 in., height '25 

 in.; tarsus 1 inch. Wing rounded, the first five quills equal and 

 longest. 



The gizzard of this specimen was very muscular, and con- 

 tained chiefly shells of a species of Cyclotus, peculiar, so far as 

 I know, to this neighbourhood. The tibial tendons not at all 

 rigid, as in most Gallina. Testes of moderate size, but soft and 

 watery. I have reason to think there is a second species of 

 Turniw inhabiting the plains, which may prove more similar to 

 the Tamsuy species. 



Keturning from this walk, I was attracted, by the loud chirp- 

 ing of a pair of Drymceca extensicauda, to a Euphorbia-hnsh. 

 (vulgarly called " Takow Grass," and the commonest growth on 

 Apes^ Hill), when out flew the fledged young. I knocked one 

 down. Its bill was yellow, bright at the gape and inside the 

 mouth, brownish on the culmen. Feathers round the eye and 

 eyelid bright yellow. Iris deep hazel-brown. Legs, toes, and 

 claws lisrht flesh-colour. 



