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white on the wing including some of the smaller coverts, the tips of 

 the first row, and the secondary coverts ; the primaries and outer secon- 

 daries are narrowly, the inner secondaries broadly margined with white, 

 with which most of them are also tipped. The middle tail-feathers 

 are black, the rest brownish-black, all narrowly edged with white, and 

 having a narrow speck of the same at the end of the inner web. Some 

 of the feathers on the abdomen and the lower tail-coverts are also tip- 

 ped with white. 



Length to end of tail 7 inches ; bill along the ridge ||, along the 

 edge of lower mandible 15 ; wing from flexure Si^j ; tail 2j^ ; tarsus 

 ^^ ; hind toe ^|, its claw ^\ ; middle toe -i^, its claw ^^. 



Adult Female. Plate CCCXC. Fig. 3. 



The Female, which is smaller than the male, differs greatly in colour. 

 The bill is dusky above, pale beneath ; the feet as in the male. The 

 upper parts are greyish-brown, streaked with dusky brown, the lower 

 white, with oblong spots of brownish-black, the abdomen nearly pure, 

 the sides tinged with reddish-brown. The quills are dark brown, edged 

 and tipped with reddish-white, and the patch on the wing is of the same 

 tint. The tail feathers are also dark brown, the outer externally edged, 

 and all tipped with white on the inner web. 



. Length to end of tail 6^ inches ; bill along the ridge || ; wing from 

 flexm-e 31 ; tail 2^^ ; tarsus \i ; hind toe 1%, its claw 1^ ; middle toe 

 l^i its claw ||. 



