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otlier, and sometimes we find a similar tendency in the 

 size." 



By the kindness of Mr. Reeve^ I am able to figure 

 an excellent drawing with which he has favoured me of 

 a specimen in the Norwich Museum, in the young or 

 Hobby-like plumage, the cere, beak, and legs being 

 coloured from a living specimen in Mr. Gurney's 

 gardens at Catton. Of this specimen Mr. Gurney 

 writes me, — "About three years ago I bought a living 

 F. eleonora, which I still have, and which still retains 

 the Hobby-like dress which it had when I bought it. 

 I think, however, it is very gradually becoming darker, 

 and its colours were never so bright as the one which 

 Mr. Reeve is drawing for you; in this bird the cere is 

 a dark bluish grey, legs and feet greenish yellow, iris 

 dark hazel." 



