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grey; claws brownish. Iris light reddish brown. Feathers near 
nostrils, spot on cheek, greater part of tibise, vent, and edges to 
some of the breast-feathers bright rufous. Crown and moustache 
dull black, the feathers of the former edged with deep olive-grey. 
Sides of the neck, flanks, axillaries, and basal portions of tibise 
olive-grey, somewhat rufescent. Back and wing-coverts rufous 
brown. Quills and tail deep hair-brown, deeply margined and 
washed with rufous brown; the 4th, 5th, and 6th primaries 
nearly equal, and longest in wing; under part of central quills 
whitish. Rectrices oval at end, graduated, the lateral feathers 
being in. shorter than the central. Throat, breast, and belly 
white, the breast being adorned with a few very large black 
oblong spots. 
In the young bird the bill is much shorter and less curved, 
the head is browner, and the back and upper parts more rufous; 
but the under parts are dingier, and the colours generally not 
so bright as in the adult. 
7 46. Hypsipetes nigerrimus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 282. 
General plumage black, shot with dark green, especially on 
the upper parts, the wings and tail being edged with bluish or 
charcoal smoke-grey. Upper mandible of bill somewhat serrated 
on the apical half. Sexes similar, the female having rather 
shorter wings. Bill and legs brilliant coral-red; sole-pads and 
bases of claws dingy ochreous; claws black. Inside of mouth 
and tongue orange-red. Tongue horny, and turned up at the 
edges, which in the apical third are split up and overlap one 
another. Skin of eyelid black; iris deep chestnut. Ear-covert 
roundish, not quite so large as eye, with a large quadrilateral 
central aperture. Length 9^ in.; wing 4^; tail 4^. A large 
banyan-fig was found sticking in the throat of this specimen. 
The first quill rather short; the 4th the longest in the wing, 
being in- longer than the 5 th. Tail of 12 feathers, their shafts 
slightly projecting; the four central feathers about in. shorter 
than the others, giving to the tail a somewhat forked appearance; 
lateral feathers curved outwardly. In many of the specimens 
the feathers of the belly, axillaries, rump, and vent are margined 
with bluish grey. 
