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a finer grass ; and inside it is lined with down of some plant. The eggs, which were hard-set, are 

 greyish white, thickly freckled with light hair-brown, so as to show but little of the ground- 

 colour. They are - 59 inch in length by 0*44 inch in breadth." A figure of the egg accompanies 

 this paper (Ibis, 1863, pi. 13, fig. 1). 



The adult male and female, which we have here figured and described, were collected for 

 us by Mr. Crossley. 



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