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longer in proportion ; chin and throat still very bare, the bare

skin extends in a line down centre of throat and branches off on

each side, in a line extending to a point under each ear ; this

bare space is edged with white and is all white in the adult. The

primaries are already being renewed, the tenth (innermost) is

nearly an inch long and the ninth has just been dropped ; lower

egg tooth still retained.


August 5th. Young one growing very plump, central

portion of under surface of wing still bare ; chin and base of bill

to eye quite bare of feathers, bare skin dark purplish grey,

eighth primary (new feather) showing plainly but not yet burst

its sheath, the first primary in each wing (first feather) is still

growing, tail feathers seem to be full grown, feathers on top of

head are now quite long and practically full grown ; skin round

the eye getting white, just a speck of lower egg tooth left, the

rest seems to have been worn away.


August nth. Young one now between six and seven

weeks old, growing, though still very far from being full grown,

chin more covered with young white feathers in sheath ; sides of

lower mandible and space between bill and eye still quite bare

without any trace of feathers. A general moult is now in pro¬

gress, numerous new feathers, especially 011 the breast are com¬

ing up between the first feathers, some being half grown, tenth

(new) primary full grown, ninth about half grown, last trace of

egg tooth has disappeared, the central tail feathers, basal half of

the others and upper tail coverts are freckled with light brown.

In the adult these parts are solid brown, the first plumage is very

similar to the adult, the chief difference being that all the brown

feathers of the upper surface are indistinctly vermiculated with

light brown, the edges are paler as in the full grown bird, which

has these feathers solid brown with lighter tips, the breast of the

young bird is not so grey, and the speculum on the wing is a

mixture of brown and black, the black portion being tinged with

green but not like the bright metallic glossy green of the adult.

This brings my notes on the second young bird to an end, so I

will now go back to the first young one hatched on May 23rd.


O11 the 7th of July it was between six and seven weeks old,

just at the age at which we left No. 2. It was very like its



