97 
is an amazing disproportion in respect to 
weight, for which we know not how to ae* 
count, unless it be a typographical error. 
Such however being the difference of opinions, 
it is our duty to state them to our readers^ 
feeling extremely sorry that it has not been 
in our power to procure any specimen of the 
female in so recent a state as to form any 
judgment on their respective accuracy; we 
are therefore compelled to leave it in the same 
uncertain state, convinced at the same time, 
if the above weight and measurement be cor- 
rectly printed, that so accurate an observer 
as Montagu would not have hazarded the as- 
sertion but upon the strongest evidence. He 
thus describes the female. " Bill, cere, and 
irides the same as the male, The whole up- 
per parts of the plumage are brown, tinged 
with ferruginous^ with dusky streaks on the 
shafts, beneath yellowish white, with broad 
dusky brown streaks; tail brown like the 
back, with five or six narrow bars of yellow^ 
ish white, tipped with the same." 
The greater quill feathers in the mate are 
black; and the inner webs marked with 
many oblong white spots; those next the 
