BY C. W. DE VIS, If .A, 



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crescentic band which is narrowest on the head and tail-coverts ; 

 lores obscurely grey ; no trace of a post-ocular stripe ; ear coverts # 

 broadly black tipped, the tips forming a line which is continued ove r 

 the side of the neck, and forward to the lower mandible ; greater 

 wing-coverts almost black on the inner, olive brown on the outer 

 webs, tipped with ochreous buff : primary coverts broadly tipped with 

 black : quills brown on the inner, russet olive-brown on the outer - 

 webs ; four centre tail feathers russet olive-browni : third, fourth and 

 fifth on each side darkish broivn on the inner, russet olive-brown on 

 the outer webs : outermost pale-brown with tip of outer web and 

 an elongate wedge-shaped mark between the shaft and the edge of 

 the inner web white : all the feathers very indistinctly barred, the 

 penultimate feather buff tipped. Beneath white, on the throat 

 greyish with a few of the hinder and lateral feathers black tipped ; 

 breast, flanks, upper abdomen and sides of lower much tinge I with 

 ochre-yellow, with black terminal cresentic bands broadest on the 

 flanks ; centre of lower abdomen uniform white. Under tail- 

 coverts ochreous buff. Axillaries white at base, more than the 

 terminal half black : under wing-coverts black at base, less than 

 the terminal half ochreous : basal half of primaries and secondaries 

 p*l<* ochreous, scapulars and all the feathers of the back, upper 

 tail-coverts and breast with distinct pale shafts ; legs and feet 

 pale-brown ; bill blackish-brown, much paler on base of lower 

 mandible, Wing with fourth primary the longest, third and fifth 

 unequal, second distinctly shorter than sixth. Wing 139 m.m. = 

 5*45, bastard primary 30 m.m. = 1*1, tail 130 m.m. = 5*1, culmen 25 

 m.m. = 1*0, tarsus 34*5 m.m. = 1*35. 



In a male of apparently inferior age, the under tail- coverts 

 and the base of the primaries and secondaries are but faintly tinged 

 with ochreous, and the under wing-coverts are pure white beyond 

 the black base. All the tail feathers but the outermost, which is as 

 in the adult, are lightly tipped with white. 



The female has likewise the under tail-coverts white, stained 

 with ochreous, but of this colour there is but the faintest possible 

 tinge on the inner surface of the primaries and secondaries. 



