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the outer edges. The tail is dull greenish-yellow, variegated 

 with yellowish-grey, the feathers with narrow transverse- 

 bars of black, a broad longitudinal band of dull red on each 

 side, the loose margins red, glossed with green and purple. 

 On the abdomen and legs the feathers are dull greyish- 

 brown ; under the tail variegated with reddish. The lower- 

 surface of the wing is yellowish- grey. 



" Length to end of tail 34 inches ; extent of wings 82 ; 

 wing from flexure 10; tail 18|-; bill along the back 1-^,. 

 along the edge of upper mandible l^wi tarsus SyV; first 

 toe rw> its claw t^; second toe l-j^, its claw -fy; third 

 toe 2i, its claw yV ; fourth toe It^, its claw 4^ twelfths. 



" Of three other individuals, the length 34, 35, 36 inches.. 



" Female. — The female is similar in form to the male, but 

 with the tail much shorter. The bill and feet require no 

 particular description. The anterior scutella of the tarsus- 

 are about seventeen in each row; the first toe has five, the 

 second fifteen, the third twenty -two, the fourth eighteen. As- 

 in the male, there is a bare space under the eye, but scarcely 

 papillar, and more feathered. The feathers of the upper part 

 of the head are somewhat elongated; those of the rest of the 

 head short ; of the neck and body oblong and rounded ; of 

 the rump not elongated as in the male. 



"The general colour of the upper parts is greyish-yellow, 

 variegated with black and yellowish-brown ; the top of the- 

 head and the hind-neck tinged with red. The wing-coverts- 

 are lighter; the quills pale greyish-brown, mottled with 

 : greyish-yellow, as in the male. The tail is yellowish-grey,, 

 minutely mottled with black, and having in place of transverse 

 bars, oblique irregular spots of black, centred with a pale- 

 yellow line. The lower parts are lighter and less mottled, 

 the throat whitish, and without spots. The bill is horn- 

 coloured, tinged with green ; the tarsi wood-brown, the toes,, 

 darker, the claws of the same tint. 



"Length 26 inches; extent of wings 30; wing from' 

 flexure 9^ : tail Hi; bill along the back 1^; tarsus 2^; first- 



