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light grey markings of great beauty. Quills whitish 

 grey, with reddish-brown markings. 



Scolopax rusticola. ? . (Leadenhall Market.) All the 

 lighter parts of the plumage bright chestnut-rufous, 

 the dark markings black, so that by this contrast a 

 beautiful effect is produced. Head and neck black, 

 each feather with a chestnut-rufous, mostly concealed, 

 cross-bar. 



Nestor meridionalis. Collingwood, New Zealand. With 

 a broad yellow band across the breast. (This is the 

 aberration erroneously recognized by Gould, Finsch, and 

 Salvadori as a species, under the name of N. esslingi.) 



2. Like the former : one with the yellow pectoral 

 band incomplete and irregular. 



2. White ; sides of head, throat, collar on back, 

 abdomen, and tail-coverts with yellow and red edges ; 

 tail partly red. 



1. Light yellow ; collar, tail-coverts, under wing- 

 coverts, and abdomen red. 



1. With the feathers of the head and neck broadly 

 tipped with orange-yellow ; rest of upper surface red, 

 with blackish edges ; wing with a large creamy-white 

 speculum ; tail rosy red, with wide blackish tips ; 

 feathers of breast with yellow spots, those of the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts red. 



1. With the feathers of the crown broadly edged with 

 dull yellow ; rest of upperside red, feathers of back with 

 orange-yellow edges ; tail, wing, and underside as in 

 the former specimen. 



PaljEornis cyanocephala. India. Head canary-yellow, 

 with a few typically-coloured feathers ; black mandibular 

 stripes and collar absent. General coloration rather 

 pale ; primaries canary-yellow ; under bill brown, not 

 blackish. 



Trichoglossus noVjE - hollandi^. Cage - bird, bred with 

 two normally-coloured ones. Breast-feathers yellow, 

 with bluish-green tips and orange-red sub-terraiual 



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