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Mr. J. H. Gurney^s Notes on 
April. In this bird the coloration of the upper surface is very 
similar to that of No. 2^ but is rather darker_, owing to the 
appearance on the back of several new feathers of a deep 
purplish brown^ with narrow and inconspicuous pale brown 
tips. The primaries and secondaries resemble those of No. 2 j 
but some of the secondaries are transversely marked on the 
inner web as in No. 1. The tail is dark brown^ with a very 
narrow paler tip_, but with no signs of transverse bars_, except 
some extremely indistinct indications of such markings on 
the two outermost rectrices on one side of the tail only. The 
wing-linings and axillaries resemble in coloration and mark¬ 
ings those of No. 1; the remaining underparts are like those 
of No. 2_, with the following exceptions : viz. the feathers of 
the upper breast are decidedly browner^ and their shaft-marks 
are darker and more conspicuous; on the lower breast the 
feathers appear to be new_, with pure white bases comprising 
the greater part of the feather^ the remainder being occupied 
by a transverse brown mark^ slightly tinged with fulvous^ 
and about half an inch in depths below which a very narrow 
white tip to the feather is apparent; on the rest of the under¬ 
parts the feathers_, which do not appear to have been renewed^ 
are rather more rufous than in No. 2, but are irregularly 
crossed and varied with white. Mr. Ayres noted the irides 
of this specimen as bright gamboge-yellow.^^ 
(No. 6.) Another specimen from the same locality^ shot 
16th July^ is in similar plumage to No. 5, but somewhat 
more advanced. The upper parts resemble in their coloration 
those of No. 5; but the wing- and tail-feathers are trans¬ 
versely marked^ as in the adult, except that the tail is crossed 
by five dark bars instead of four, and the interspaces between 
the dark bars on the outer webs of the secondaries are deep 
purplish brown instead of brownish grey. The wing-linings 
of this specimen resemble those of No. 5; the axillary fea¬ 
thers appear to be partly old and partly new, the former being 
rufous, barred with white, and the latter wholly white, with 
the exception of a subterminal spot of wood-brown. There is 
much more white on the remainder of the underparts than in 
No. 5, especially on the abdomen and tibiae; and the inter- 
