TRINGINiE. MACHETES. 
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the angle very long and narrow, the sides grooved, the tip 
a little enlarged and obtuse. Mouth extremely narrow ; 
tongue very long, slender, trigonal, channelled above, point- 
ed ; oesophagus narrow ; stomach broadly elliptical, com- 
pressed, with strong muscles, radiated tendons, and dense, 
thin, rugous epithelium ; intestine of moderate length and 
width ; coeca of moderate length, narrow, cylindrical. Nos- 
trils small, linear, pervious, basal, close to the margin. Eyes 
rather small, both eyelids densely feathered. Aperture of 
ear rather large, roundish. Legs rather long ; tibia bare 
about a third of its length ; tarsus slender, compressed, with 
numerous anterior scutella ; toes slender, first very small and 
elevated, anterior toes rather long, inner a little shorter than 
outer, all with numerous scutella, and marginate, the third 
and fourth connected by a basal web ; claws small, arched, 
much compressed, tapering, acute. Plumage moderately 
full, soft, rather blended, on the back and wings firm ; wing 
long, pointed, with twenty-five quills ; first primary longest, 
secondaries incurved, the inner much elongated ; tail short, 
doubly emarginate, of twelve feathers. 
^ Only one species is known to me. 
187. Machetes pugnax. Ruff. 
Male in winter with the bill brown, the feet greenish- 
yellow, the throat and abdomen white, the fore neck and part 
of the breast pale reddish-brown, spotted with dark brown, 
the upper parts variegated with brownish-black and light red. 
The female similar, but with the upper parts lighter, the 
lower more grey, the bill and feet dusky. Male in summer 
with numerous fleshy tubercles on the face, two occipital 
tufts and a very large ruff of elongated feathers on the neck ; 
the colours of the plumage varying in different individuals, 
and even in the same at different periods of the same season ; 
the bill and feet orange yellow. The female without tuber- 
cles or ornamental feathers ; the upper parts greyish-brown, 
glossed with green ; the fore neck and breast pale ; the bill 
and feet dusky. Young with the lower parts pale reddish 
anteriorly, white behind; the feathers of the upper parts 
black, margined with light red. 
Male, 12, 25, 7 b 1^, 2, 1 T %, T %. Female, 11, 23. 
The female of this species is smaller than the male, the 
