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ACCOUNT OF TWO 



Description, 



Total length 12^ inches; bill near inches, 

 wedged, smooth, black,; straight ; crown deep glos- 

 sy-black, which extends to the hind-head, and 

 there ends in a point. At the nostrils begins a 

 whitish stripe, which includes the eye, and then 

 becomes a rich orange-yellow, uniting behind the 

 head, and spreading over the sides and lower part 

 of the neck and breast. A black patch occupies 

 the chin, and throat freckled near the bill with 

 white. Upper part of the body, including the 

 wing-covers, greyish-brown, transversely striated 

 with greyish-white ; quills the same, but darker 

 and immaculate ; near their tips, the 1st, 2d and 

 3d shorter than the 4th ; the shafts of all golden- 

 yellow ; inner wings pale-yellow ; rump white ; 

 under part of the plumage grey, with brown ar- 

 row-shaped lines pointing downwards, two on each 

 feather ; upper and under tail-covers equally band- 

 ed with black and whitish ; tail 4 \ inches long, 

 and black ; the two middle feathers partially band- 

 ed with dirty yellow ; the two outermost pair the 

 same on the exterior web only ; the shafts of the 

 last golden in the middle ; legs and feet obscure 

 olive. This was a female. 



I only observed this rare bird in the dry and 

 arid tracts of table-land in the Sertem or inland 



