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exception of the usual dark cap to the head, the nape of the neck, 
sides of the same, and throat (slightly tinged with yellow), and the 
whole of the under parts in front of the legs were pure white, only 
one dark spot remaining, in which the tips of the feathers were 
still dark (near the point of the wing on one side only). The 
abdomen and tail-coverts sooty brown. Middle tail-feathers 
wanting. 
No. 2. Fully adult, sex not noted. Only a few irregular dark 
patches (the bars being broken up) across the chest, with a few on 
the sides ol the breast ; sides of the neck yellow. Under parts 
pure white, except under tail-coverts, etc., sooty brown. IMiddle 
tail-feathers wanting. 
No. ,3. Adult male. Yellow on sides of neck, and slightly 
barred across the chest. White under parts excejit under tail- 
coverts, etc. i\[iddle tail-feathers projecting Sj in. One a little 
longer than the other, twisted and rounded at the tips. The webs 
of the feet split up nearly the length of the toes. 
No. 4. Adult female. Very slight dark markings across the 
chest, sides ot the neck yellow, rest of under parts white, except 
the under tail-coverts, etc. One barred feather still umnoulted in 
the latter. Iwo middle tail-feathers jirojecting 2J in., sli'dit 
twist. ° 
No. 0 . Adult female. I^luch mottled with black and white 
across the chest. Slight tinge of j’cllow on sides of neck. Under 
tail-coverts, etc., sooty brown. IMiddlo tail-feathers wanting. 
No. C.-' Adult male. Slight splashes only of dark colour on 
the chest. Sides of neck yellow. Under tail-coverts, etc., sooty 
brown. Middle tail feathers wantintr. 
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No. 7. Adult female. Slightly marked across the chest. 
Yellow on sides of neck. Under tail-coverts, etc., sooty brown. 
Two middle tail-feathers projecting, one, in., the other a trifle 
less, but much more pointed than in other specimens. Showing 
the twist without the broad tips. ° 
No. 8. Adult male. Slight dark bars across the chest. Very 
yellow on sides of nock. Under tail-coverts, etc., sooty brown, 
^liddle tail-feathers wanting. 
* This bird resembles an adult in my own collection, killed some years 
back at Salthouse or Blakeney. 
YOL. III. 
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