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grey. Basal half of the remiges on the underwing edged with 
salmon-buff. The stems of the remiges are of the same colour. 
Bill nearly as bright red as in the adult. Legs and toes well 
washed with black. 
Psaropholus ardens. First full plumage. Bill brownish, 
tinged with blue. Legs leaden-blue. Head and hind neck dull 
black; throat and under neck the same, freckled with white. 
Axillaries and tibia brownish black. Belly whitish, smeared 
and streaked with brown, more or less blackish. Wing deep 
brown, quills narrowly edged, paler. Wing-coverts broadly tip¬ 
ped with reddish-buff, which colour margins the first tertiaries. 
Some of the scapulars tipped with same, and in the nestling 
these spots probably extended to the dorsals also. They still 
occur here and there on the back of the full-fledged bird; but 
the red is crowding them out, and has already become crimson 
on the rump and tail. The tail, however, is still washed with 
black. In the fledgeling stage this bird must be very Turdine, 
more so than the Yellow Orioles. 
On the 7th of November I received a few birds from Consul 
Caine at Swatow. They were the following:— Pelecanus philip - 
pensis, fine mature male with curled occipital crest; Nycticorax 
griseus , in immature or first plumage; Gallicrex cristata } male 
in young plumage, distinguishable from the female by its redder 
tinge and larger size; Butorides javanica, mature male; and 
Tchitrea principalis, immature, with reddish wings and tail, and 
dusky bill and legs. The Pelican received this time is the only 
mature specimen of this species that I have yet procured. I have 
sent it home for identification. 
My account of our Formosan Turnix rostrata will long ere 
this have reached you [Ibis, 1865, p. 543]. You will therein 
learn the fact of my having discovered the bird in attendance 
upon its young, that the only parent so engaged was the male 
(found so to be on dissection); and you will read the remarks I 
was led to make on this curious occurrence. The third volume 
of Jerdon's ‘Birds of India 3 has just reached me; and turning 
up T. taigoor , Sykes, I find (p. 597) the following:—“The 
females are said by the natives to desert their eggs, and to asso¬ 
ciate together in flocks ; and the males are said to be employed in 
