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L A C K - E A K E D AY 1 1 E A T E A K , 
with each feather bordered with brown, and marked 
in the centre with a yellowish spot; middle of the 
abdomen and under tail coverts, of this tint; middle 
and greater wing coverts broadly bordered with russet. 
After the first moult the young only differ from the 
female in autumn, by the wing having no trace of 
broAvn on the side of the head, and by the throat 
being russet. 
My figures of this bird and its egg are from speci- 
mens with which I have been obligingly favoured by 
the Kev. H. B. Tristram. 
Figured by Brisson, Orn., vol. iii., pi. 25, fig. 4; 
Edwards, pi. 31, (a good figure, but given as the female 
of S. stapazina i) Vieillot, Faun. Fr., pi. 85, figs. 1, 2, 
and 3; Boux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 200, (adult male;) 
Bouteille, Ornith. du Dauph., pi. 22, fig. 4; Gould, B. 
of E., pi. 92. 
