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in the other are paler. The wing lining is blackish brown, 
but the feathers about the carpal joint are creamy white. 
That this bird belongs to Fischer's Genus Podoces, as 
defined in the " conspectus generum avium " (I have been 
nnable to consult the Moscow Memoires there can be no 
possible doubt. The nostrils covered over with dense tufts, 
the gently curving bill, the strong feet, with the lateral toes 
nearly equal, the rounded wing maintaining the typical 
proportions of the primaries, and the long dense soft 
plumage, sufficiently testify to this fact. Even as regards 
the arrangements of colours, the present species so closely 
Podoces Hendersoni. 
adheres to the bird on which the genus was founded that I 
had at first identified the two ; but from Bonaparte's 
description it appears that P. Panderi has a large black 
patch upon the breast, and no black patch on the top and 
back of the head, whereas exactly the reverse is the case in 
this species. Moreover the shafts of the quills are not 
black, as described in P. Panderi, and I have therefore 
named the species as above. Great diff'erences appear to 
have prevailed as to the affinities of this genus : they have 
been classed with Magpies, J ays, and Crows ; and Bona- 
