Dupont’s dark. 
187 
featlier wliite, with black brown internal edge; the 
second black brown, with a white external edge; the 
six central feathers dark blackish brown. The under 
parts are of a dirty white, thickly spotted on the throat 
with dark brown longitudinal marks, and on the cross 
and flanks with the same shaped spots of russet brown; 
feet, beak, and iris brown. 
Temminck says that the young differ from the adult 
by the large borders of clear isabelle colour, which mark 
all the feathers of the upper parts of the body; the 
black spots of the inferior parts are larger than in the 
adult. It is only seven inches long. 
My figure of this bird is from a specimen sent me 
by Mr. Tristram, marked “Waregla, Dec., 1856, 
The egg is the one alluded to in the quotation I have 
made from that gentleman’s paper in the “Ibis.” 
The bird has also been figured by Vieillot, Faun. 
Franc., p. 173, pi. 76, fig. 2; Foux, Ornith. Prov., vol. i, 
p. 285, pi. 186; M^erner, Atlas du Manuel. 
