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tendency to form a dark line along the outer margin. The greater coverts (which are all 

 that have appeared) show a wide pale buff tip, with two lateral, subterminal, round spots 

 of black. 



Bill from nostril, 6 mm. ; wing, 96 ; tail, 33 ; tarsus, 28 ; middle toe and claw, 

 28 mm. 



Five Weeks Old Chick. — A chick of this age is clothed in juvenile plumage 

 except for the chin, throat and facial area, which are still in down. Culmen, 7 mm. ; 

 wing, 119 ; tail, 76 ; tarsus, 35 ; middle toe and claw, 33 mm. 



Eight Weeks Old Bird — In full juvenile plumage. Facial area showing only a 

 few scattered down featherlets ; entire upper head and neck and the sides of latter dark 

 seal brown, paling gradually toward the throat into white on the chin ; feathers of chin 

 and throat, sides of lower face and neck recurved, standing up separately. General tone 

 of upper parts very dark brown, finely mottled with paler buff. The mantle and 

 scapulars marked with an expanded, subterminal, elongated shaft-spot of clear buff. 

 The back, rump and central pair of tail feathers show only the fine vermiculations, these 

 being grey rather than buff. The buff shaft-spot is present on all the lesser and median 

 coverts, becoming the terminal band of the greater coverts, but all the wing-coverts are 

 sharply marked off from the feathers of the adjacent portions of the body by the two 

 subterminal black spots. Toward the greater coverts these spots join and form a solid, 

 conspicuous band of black just posterior to the terminal buff. This gives a handsome 

 barred appearance, several lines of the successive buff and black. On the innermost 

 secondaries the buff bar disappears, while the black pushes forward and forms a long, 

 narrow margin. The primary coverts, like their flights, show no definite characters, 

 being irregularly mottled with rufous and buff. 



The 8th, 9th and loth primaries are still growing strongly, showing that there is 

 considerable delay in the growth of the first as well as the two outer ones. Numbers 4, 5, 

 6 and 7 are full-grown juvenile primaries. Number i is new, measuring 94 mm.. out of 

 the sheath. No. 2 is a bare 13 out of its sheath, while No. 3 has apparently just fallen 

 out. 



The juvenile primaries are curved, narrow and chiefly dull brown with little 

 mottling. The new feather is broad, very dark, and with rufous marking on both 

 webs, roughly longitudinal on the outer web and irregularly transverse on the inner. 



There are six pairs of rectrices. The outer five pairs are much alike, rich rufous, 

 mottled irregularly with black, while the central pair is cold, dark brown with greyish 

 mottlings. There are faint indications of six or more pale lateral bars. The two 

 central pairs are still growing strongly. All are juvenile. The outermost (full-grown) 

 feather measures 81 mm.; the central (growing) ones 126 mm. 



The under parts show a warm orange hue, beginning as a shaft-stripe below the 

 grey of the lower throat, which rapidly enlarges on the breast and belly, where the 

 black lateral marking is reduced considerably. The orange pales on the thighs and rear 

 under parts. 



Bill from nostril, 10 mm.; wing, 147; tail, 127; tarsus, 50; middle toe and claw, 

 43 mm. 



