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edges of the feathers; top of the head darker, with a greyish longi- 

 tudinal band across the vertex, and a similar one mottled grey and 

 black, forming a kind of collar at the nape and round the neck; ear 

 coverts clear brown, with a light grey patch above the eyes, and 

 laterally on each side of the base of the upper mandibles; primaries 

 and secondaries dark brown, with light chesnut edges; two upper tail 

 feathers and upper tail coverts light chesnut brown, darkest in the 

 centre; the first lateral tail feather white, with black brown internal 

 edge; the second black brown, with a white external edge; the six 

 central feathers dark blackish brown. The under parts are of a dirty 

 white, thickly spotted on the throat with dark brown longitudinal 

 marks, and on the cross and flanks with the same shaped spots of 

 russet brown; feet, beak, and iris brown. 



Temminck says that the young differ from the adult by the large 

 borders of clear isabelle colour, which mark all the feathers of the 

 upper parts of the body; the black spots of the inferior parts are 

 larger than in the adult. It is only seven inches long. 



My figure of this bird is from a specimen sent me by Mr. Tristram, 

 marked "Waregla, Dec, 1856, <$ ." The egg is the one alluded to 

 in the quotation I have made from that gentleman's paper in the 

 "Ibis." 



The bird has also been figured by Vieillot, Faun. Franc, p. 173, 

 pi. 76, fig. 2; Roux, Ornith. Prov., vol. i., p. 285, pi. 186; Werner, 

 Atlas du Manuel; Dresser, B. of E. 



