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Mr. J. H. Gurney^s Notes on 
are barred, but the new feathers coming up amongst them 
are not so; the dark shaft-marks on the rufous mantle are 
very black, and more conspicuous than in any other speci¬ 
men that I have seen, an effect which is heightened by the 
faded character of the adjacent plumage. 
C, from Sumatra. This bird, which is adult, only differs 
from A in having the black shaft-marks on the rufous mantle 
somewhat less strongly marked, those on the white portions 
of the plumage, and the transverse bars on the wing, being 
almost identical in character and extent. 
D, from Banjermassing, South Borneo. This adult speci¬ 
men only differs from C in having the dark shaft-marks on 
the white portion of the plumage rather less distinctly marked, 
and also in the entire absence of transverse bars from the 
quill-feathers of the wings and tail. 
E, from Flores. This bird is also adult, and resembles D, 
with the exception that the shaft-marks on the white portions 
of the plumage are still less strongly marked, and that slight 
and imperfect traces of dark transverse bars are perceptible 
on the inner webs of some of the primaries and tertials. 
F, from Macassar. This specimen has nearly assumed the 
adult dress, but the feathers of the wing-coverts are still 
tipped with pale fulvous ; with this exception all those por¬ 
tions of the plumage which are rufous in the adult are ru¬ 
fous in this specimen, though not quite so intensely as in 
older birds; the white portions of the plumage are as in the 
fully adult bird, and show no admixture whatever, except 
a few narrow dark shaft-marks on the centre of the crown of 
the head, and some others on the nape of the neck; the dark 
shaft-marks on the rufous mantle resemble those of D ; the 
inner webs of the rectrices, except the central pair, and also 
those of the secondaries and tertials, are transversely barred 
with brownish black. 
G, from Macassar. A m oulting bird, which has nearly com¬ 
pleted its passage from the immature to the adult dress; some 
secondaries and tertials belonging to the former dress still 
remain; of these the first are rufous, transversely barred with 
imperfect transverse brown bands on the inner webs; in the , 
