ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
vent, upper and under tail-covers and greater part of tail, snow 
white ; medial pair of rectrices black at the extremities, for about 
one and a half inch, and the remainder for about half an inch. 
Beak and feet black. Female similar, but brown where the 6 is 
black. 
Length, 5.7; beak to front, 5 ; to gape, 7; wing, 3.7; medial 
and external rectrices, 2. 7; tarsus, li. 
The specimen here figured was procured by Captain Boys in 
Northern India, and is now in the collection of P. L. Sclater, Esq., 
Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Mr. Blyth states, that it is com- 
mon about Agra. — H. E. Strickland. 
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