(ESTRELATA HERALDICA. 



show through, all the feathers having obsolete narrow margins of grey ; forehead 

 mottled, with white margins and ashy-grey centres to the feathers ; lores white ; sides 

 of face white, mottled with ashy-black, the ear-coverts nearly uniform black ; the 

 feathers below the eye spotted with black ; a white line below the eye ; cheeks white, 

 with a few ashy-brown bars ; throat and under-surface of body pure white, with an ashy- 

 shade across the fore-neck and sides of neck, the feathers of the latter with hoary- 

 grey margins, those of the lower throat and fore-neck being narrowly barred with 

 ashy-brown, forming a thickly barred collar across the fore-neck ; sides of body 

 washed with ashy-grey and more or less barred with dusky-brown ; a patch of 

 ashy-brown feathers on the lower flanks above the thigh ; under tail-coverts white, 

 with black bars near the ends of the feathers, some of which are freckled along the 

 outer web ; axillaries blackish, with white bases ; under wing-coverts blackish, with 

 white edges, the greater series and the primary-coverts for the most part white, with 

 dusky-brown ends ; quills blackish below, with the basal half of the inner web white ; 

 bill black ; tarsi and toes orange-yellow (in skin), terminal third of toes black. Total 

 length about 14.0 inches; culmen, 1.1; wing, 11.1; tail, 4.4; tarsus, 1.3; middle 

 toe and claw, 1.8. 



The description and figure are taken from the typical specimen in our collection. 



235 



