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about live months. It is thus described by 
thai author:—'* The bill, dusky; cere, yellow; 
hides so pale a yellow as to appear nearly 
white. The whole upper part of the head 
ferruginous, with small dusky spots ; on the 
hind part of the head, and nape, a broken 
patch of white ; immediately above and be- 
neath the eye is a pale streak; the coverts of 
the ears, extending down to the lower mandi- 
ble, is dark chocolate brown; the feathers 
on the whole upper part of the body, inclu- 
ding the scapulars, are dark chocolate brown; 
the quills the same; the first three or four 
pale ferruginous about the middle of the inner 
web; the secondary quills the darkest, and 
all more or less tipped with ferruginous, ex- 
cept on the upper part of the back ; and those 
on the back of the neck are deeply margined 
with that colour: the lower part of the rump 
and coverts of the tail, white, with a few 
streaks of bright ferruginous; the lesser co- 
verts of the wings are deeply margined with 
ferruginous: the chin is dusky brown: the 
whole under parts, from chin to vent, inclu- 
ding the thighs, under tail coverts and under 
coverts of the wings, bright ferruginous, with- 
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