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primary coverts, and primary quills, brownish-black, without spots ; 
shaft of first primary white, of the rest brown. ‘Tail-feathers white, 
with numerous bands of dark greyish-brown, the middle six feathers 
more or less of a light brownish-grey toward the end, the bars not ex- 
tending over their central part, their tips white. Length to end of 
tail 14 inches, to end of wings 14, to end of claws 16; extent of wings 
243; bill along the ridge 272, along the edge of the lower mandible 
2,5, wing from flexure 8,4 ; tail 374 ; bare part of tibia 1}; tarsus 2,4; 
hind toe and claw #4; middle toe and claw 1%. Weight 6 oz. 
Aduit Femaie. Plate CCCVIII. Fig. 2. 
The female resembles the male. 
Length to end of tail 13%, to end of wings 143, to end of claws 
17%; extent of wings 253. Weight 63 oz. 
Both sexes become darker on the upper parts, at the approach of 
spring. ‘This dark colour disappears after their autumnal moult. 
The tongue is 13% inch in length, slender, sagittate and papillate at 
the base, triangular, tapering toa fine point. On the roof of the mouth 
are two rows of large blunt papille directed backwards; the edges 
of the mandibles are thick and grooved; the posterior aperture of the 
nares linear, ;°, long. The cesophagus, 6} inches in length, passes 
along the right side of the neck, and has a diameter of ,°, of an inch in 
its upper part, but is dilated to yz before it enters the thorax. The 
proventriculus is oblong, ;*; in length, its glandules oblong. The sto- 
mach is oblong, 1,4, inch in length, 75 in breadth, its lateral muscles of 
moderate size, the tendons ,%, in diameter, the cuticular lining hard, 
with large longitudinal ruge, and of a deep red colour. The intes- 
tine 2 feet 8 inches long, varying in diameter from 74 to x4. The rec- 
tum 1,%, inch long ; the ceca 4 inches ;z long, of an oblong form, with 
the extremity rounded, their diameter 7}. 
In another individual, the cesophagus is 6} inches long; the sto- 
mach 1,3; the intestine 2 feet 3 inches ; the rectum 1;%,,the cxcea 47, 
their diameter 4. 
The trachea, 4,8, inches long, ?4 in diameter above, ;4 below; of 
120 unossified rings; its contractor muscles feeble, the sterno-tracheal 
moderate; a single pair of inferior laryngeal; the bronchial rings 
about 15. 
