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gives is from the same specimen : — Pkimage of tlie upper surface, chocolate 

 brown, each feather mai-gined with fuh^ous ; some of the scapularies with a 

 lengthened mark of dull white within the margin, and others on the edge ; 

 primaries spotted along the outer margin with buffy-white ; secondaries and 

 tertiaries crossed by indistinct or interrupted bars of buffy-white, assuming on 

 those near the body the form of spots ; spurious wing very dark brown ; tail 

 brown, crossed by five narrow irregular bars of buffy-white and tipped with 

 fulvous ; facial disk pale sandy-brown, excej)t on the forehead, throat, and ear 

 coverts, which are whitish, each feather with a streak of brownish black down 

 the centre ; feathers of the under surface deep fulvous, with a broad mark of 

 deep brown down the centre of each, the former tint increasing on the lower 

 part of the abdomen and thighs, when it again gradually fades into dull white 

 on the lower part of the tai-si ; toes sickly green, thinly beset with hair-like 

 feathers ; cere much developed and of a lead colour ; bill bluish horn colour 

 at the base, passing into yellowish horn colour at the tip, the under mandible 

 yellow. 



After examining the specimens (four), which are now accessible for the 

 purpose of this paper, the description of the bird killed at the Point Station is 

 given ; it is the lightest-coloured example, and, as will be seen, it bears a close 

 resemblance to those descriptions already presented. Upper surface brown, 

 feathers margined with fulvous, some with a lengthened mark of dull white 

 within the margin ; primaries brown, spotted along the outer web with buffy- 

 white, inner web indistinctly barred with lighter brown, these marks becoming 

 dull white towards the basal part of the quill ; secondaries and tertiaries brown, 

 crossed by interrupted bars of buffy-white, occasionally marked with spots of 

 the same colour almost oval in shape ; tail brown, crossed by five irregular 

 bars of buffy-white tipped with fulvous, mottled or clouded with pale brown ; 

 facial disk palish brown ; forehead and throat grizzle-grey ; ear coverts almost 

 white, with long lanceolate streak down the centre of each feather ; under 

 surface rich fulvous, with a broad mark of dark brown down the centre of each 

 feather ; the apical portions of the light flocculent feathers of the lower part 

 of the abdomen show fulvoiis ; on examination, two-thirds of the basal portion 

 of each feather is slaty-black ; thighs fulvous ; tarsi pale fulvous ; toes 

 yellowish flesh, with scattered hair-like feathers ; cere much developed, 

 reaching below the nostrils, which are raised ; bill curved from the base, white 

 clouded with horn colour. Measuring from gape to extremity of upper mandible 

 1 inch 4 lines ; upper mandible extends beyond the lower 2 lines ; wings 

 slightly concave, nearly 1 3 inches, fourth quill feather longest ; legs long ; 

 tarsi 2 inches 8 lines ; total length 17 inches 3 lines. 



A description of a sjDecimen in the Dunediu Museum is as follows : — 

 Length from top of head to end of tail 1 6f inches ; M'ing from tijD to flexure 

 point 10:| inches; tarsus 3f inches ; hind toe and claw | inch; middle toe and 



