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very slightly edged with the same. The female exceeds 11 inches 

 long, with wings 9^ inches, and tail 5^ inches ; colour of the upper- 

 parts much less dark, or of a dusky brownish-slaty hue, slightly 

 margined with greyish-brown especially on the scapularies, tertiaries, 

 and larger wing-coverts, and more broadly on the upper tail-coverts : 

 tail tipped with the same, having a slight tinge of rufous ; its middle 

 feathers greyish-dusky, with all but obsolete darker bars, and the rest 

 marked as in the male, but with paler rufous : spot at each side of the 

 lower part of the back of the neck whitish, and a blackish moustache 

 separated from the black-brown of the cheeks, instead of the interven- 

 ing space being filled up with black as in the male ; there is also a 

 narrow fulvous-white streak over the eye, and the frontal feathers imme- 

 diately over the beak are whitish : the lower parts are but faintly tinged 

 with ferruginous, which is deepest on the thighs, and marked with 

 larger black spots and streaks than in the other sex : primaries barred 

 on the inner web with very faint ferruginous. A young female has 

 considerably more white on the forehead, and the feathers of the crown and 

 occiput are dark brownish, marked with a dusky streak along the shaft : 

 moustache much less developed, the black merely occupying the outer 

 web, or only the shaft, of each feather : upper-parts dusky-brown, more 

 broadly margined with rufous than in the preceding; the tips of the 

 secondaries and of the inner webs of the primaries edged with white ; 

 middle tail-feathers greyish, distinctly banded with pale dusky; the 

 exterior successively more fulvous, and with darker bars of a more 

 mottled character than in the adult : upon the inner webs the fulvous is 

 much fainter than in the mature female : the primaries have a series of 

 large transverse oval white spots on the basal two-thirds of their inner 

 webs ; and the under- parts are still less tinged with ferruginous, which 

 is all but confined to the belly, thighs, and under tail- coverts, these 

 parts being nearly without markings, while the breast and sides are 

 streaked longitudinally with blackish-brown, forming larger, but less 

 defined, markings than in the adult ; the wings of this specimen are 9^ 

 inches long. 



The handsome male here described is from Darjeeling ; and both 

 females are old specimens in the Museum of the Asiatic Society, pro- 

 cured in the neighbourhood of Calcutta. I have seen no notice of this 



