132 M ABB LED BUCK. 



The adult male has the top of the head and nape, scapularies, 

 back, and upper tail coverts dark clay brown, marbled with white, 

 the scapularies being broadly bordered with that colour; the wing 

 coverts the same colour, but only very slightly fringed with white 

 or unicolorous; primaries of a richer brown, the outer web having a 

 bluish tinge, and marked with bluish white near the ends of the 

 outer webs of the first six, contrasting with the dark brown tips of 

 the feathers; secondaries unicolorous clay brown. Throat and cheeks 

 finely-marbled light brown and white; chest and crop, flanks, and 

 under tail coverts barred transversely with brown upon a ground 

 which is lighter than the dirty white of the abdomen; tail above 

 light brown, tipped with white, below dirty white. Beak black 

 brown, the nail darker glossy, and much bent downwards, so as to 

 produce a kind of hook; feet and legs black brown; iris brown. 



The female is, according to Temminck, like the male. Its plumage 

 generally brighter; the striae and brown bands paler, and the white 

 of the abdomen purer. 



My figure is taken from a fine specimen sent me by Mr. Tristram, 

 which came from Alexandria. 



It has also been figured by Bonaparte, Faun. Ital., fascic 46, fig. 

 1, (male,) and fig. 2, (young female;) and by Gould, B. of E., pi. 

 373. 



