NEW SPECIES OF FULIGULA. 
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of cream color beneath, and partly behind the eye ; 
back of the neck, and whole dorsal plumage, light 
grayish-plumbeous ; shafts of the scapulars black- 
ish ; rump and upper tail-coverts dark grayish-fus- 
cous; tail three and a quarter inches in length, 
rounded, dusky, of fourteen feathers; primaries 
black, first and second longest ; secondaries white, 
forming a speculum upon the wing when closed ; this 
consists of ten feathers, the four first, from the base, 
for two-thirds of their length, dusky ; the five ad- 
joining are of the same color for the like distance 
on their inner vanes, the tenth has a similar mark 
as far as the tip. Irids light brown. Chin and 
throat white. Whole lower parts uniform dark 
grayish-fuscous; axillaries and internal wing-co- 
verts grayish-white ; an indistinct pectoral band of 
whitish, varied with rufous; legs and feet dusky, 
webs darker ; length of tarsus one inch and eight- 
tenths; middle toe, two and a half inches; hind 
toe, six-tenths. The labarynth in the trachea of 
the male large. 
The female is of an uniformly lighter color, ap- 
proaching to ash, and wants the pectoral band and 
white throat, but in other respects resembles the 
male. 
