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light grey markings of great beauty. Quills whitish 
grey, with reddish-brown markings. 
ScoLOPAX RusTicoLA. ? . (Leadeuhall Market.) All the 
lighter parts of the plumage bright chestnut-rufous, 
the dark markings black, so that by tins contrast a 
beautiful effect is produced. Head and neck black, 
each feather with a chestnut-rufous, mostly concealed, 
cross-bar. 
Nestor meridionalis. Collingwood, New Zealand. With 
a broad yellow band across the breast. (This is the 
aberration erroneously recognized by Gould, Finsch, and 
Salvador! as a species, under the name of N, esslingi.) 
2. Like the former : one with the yellow pectoral 
band incomplete and irregular. 
2. White ; sides of head, throat, collar on back, 
abdomen, and tail-coverts with yellow and red edges ; 
tail partly red. 
1. Light yellow ; collar, tail-coverts, under wing- 
coverts, and abdomen red. 
1. With the feathers of the head and neck broadly 
tipped with orange-yellow ; rest of upper surface red, 
with blackish edges ; wing with a large creamy-white 
speculum ; tail rosy red, with wide blackish tips ; 
feathers of breast with yellow spots, those of the 
abdomen and under tail-coverts red. 
1. With the feathers of the crown broadly edged Avith 
dull yellow ; rest of upperside red, feathers of back with 
orange-yellow edges ; tail, Aving, and underside as in 
the former specimen. 
Pal^ornis cyanocephala. India. Head canary-yellow, 
with a few typically-coloured feathers ; black mandibular 
stripes and collar absent. General coloration rather 
pale ; primaries canary-yellow ; under hill brown, not 
blackish. 
Trichoglossus nov^ - HOLLANuiAi:. Cage - bird, bred with 
two normally-coloured ones. Breast-feathers yellow, 
with bluish-green tips and orange-red sub-terminal 
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