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whatever; they arc like the rest on their upper sur- 
face, i. e. cinereous at their basal half and black on 
their outer half. Be this as it may, our species is 
pretty well described by Dr. Waglcr, whose specific 
name we consequently adopt. The feet, for the size 
of the bird, no less than the tail, are very large. 
Size small. General colour of the plumage above 
light brown, strongly tinged with cinereous, parti- 
cularly on the wing-covers, or the ground colour may 
he called greyish brown; the front of the head is 
nearly white, which gradually changes on the crown 
to a delicate lead-colour ; across the lower part of 
the back there is a very distinct cream-colour or 
brownish-white band, margined both above and 
below’ by a hand of deep black, the lower of which 
is broadest ; the tail-covers above are tipt with 
black, so as to form three transverse bands, two 
narrow, and one, which is the last, twice the breadth 
of the others; these are probably what Le Vail- 
lant has mistaken for bands upon the tail-feathers. 
Three or four of the scapular cover of the quills have 
a large oval spot of black richly glossed with purple 
only, hut no green, and the inner half of all the 
greater covers are black. The quills, spurious 
wings, and inner wing-covers, are deep and bright 
rufous tipt with black, the two outer quills mar- 
gined also with black. Under plumage delicate 
pale vinaceous, changing to white on the belly, 
vent, and side tail-covers ; under tail-covers and the 
tail itself deep-black, the outermost feather exter- 
nally white for one-half its length, and tipt with 
