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wing; the first four quills are deeply indented on their inner 
web, the first six narrow towards their tips; the rest become 
more obtusely ended as the secondaries are approached. Tail 
about 13 inches long, composed of twelve broad feathers slightly 
narrowing to their ends and graduated, the outermost being 
1*25 inch shorter than the middle ones.” (In a more adult 
specimen, procured in January 1866, from the southern moun¬ 
tains, the difference is about 1*6.) “Tarsus 4*25. Middle toe 
2‘2, its claw 1*1; inner toe 1*4, its claw 1*2; outer toe 1*5, its 
claw *8; hind toe 1*2, its claw 1*2. Tarsi covered with rather 
large hexagonal scales, largest along shank; toes with smaller 
imperfect hexagons, larger on upper surface, and towards their 
tips transforming into transverse scutes. Legs dingy yellow, 
brighter on the toes; claws black. Bill light bluish horn-colour, 
bluer at the base and browner towards tip of upper mandibles. 
Cere and rictus bright yellow, paler towards and round the eye. 
Irides bright yellow. Coronal and occipital crest-feathers white, 
tipped with black. General plumage hair-brown, blacker on the 
cheeks, and brighter on the underparts. Wings banded and 
clouded with black and greyish-brown. Quills tipped with white; 
the wing- and tail-coverts spotted with the same. On the body 
reflexions of purple and bronze. Tail crossed by a double bar 
of light ochreous brown clouded with brown, narrowly tipped 
also-with same.” (In the more mature specimen above men¬ 
tioned the narrow middle bar is the only one that remains com¬ 
plete.) “ Under wing banded with clouded white. Under tail 
black, banded with clouded ochre.” (The maturer bird shows 
the one band nearly white, with white tips to the under tail; 
the more basal band hidden beneath the under tail-coverts is 
nearly obsolete.) “ Axillaries and lower parts yellowish-brown, 
mottled, chiefly on the latter, with black, and ocellated, thickly 
and more purely on the former, with white edged with black.” 
“ $ with a shorter and more worn bill. Has a lighter plu¬ 
mage. Her wing is worn, and has fewer spots. The basal band 
of the tail has nearly disappeared, and the central band ap¬ 
proaches nearer the roots of the tail. Her under wings have 
wider bands of white. She appears to be an older bird than the 
male. Length 30 inches, tail 13, tarsi 4°5. 
N. S.—VOL. II. 
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