feather, these spots paling into whitish near the apex ;
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the hind-neck plain umbe
ne-spot from the mantle; head tawny buff, mottled and,
nape-s :

oe feathers; a few of the feathers of the crown with

beautiful lilac plumes, somewhat elongated laterally ;

r-brown, separating the
as it were, striped with dark

brown edges
silvery-whitish

tips; on the nape a band of
wing-coverts like the
buff at the tips; the quills brown, edged with whity brown
: ie ; hi solete on the
secondaries, these spots being somewhat obsolete on the

back, and spotted with tawny
and having pale spots at the end of the
tips of the
blackish brown, having in addition to the fulvous bar at the end,
buff; tail-feathers brown, edged with pale brown along both

primaries ; upper tail-coverts
a second sub-terminal bar of tawny
webs, and tipped with pale tawny buff;
awny buff, like the head, and striped in the same
manner, with dusky brown edges to the feathers ; cheeks buffy whitish, the feathers ed

throat fulvescent, shading off into whity brown on the chest, the bre

lores and ear-coverts, as well as the sides of the neck, t

ged with brown ;
ast and abdomen being uniform
the flanks and thighs; the throat and
tail-coverts pale tawny buff, with a few remains of
dusky brown bars; axillaries buffy whitish ; under wing-coverts uy buff, with a few
quills ashy brown below, pale yellow along the inner web: “bill

creamy buff; the sides of the body whitish, barred with dusky on
>
fore-neck spotted with small bars of dusky; under

dusky brown bars ;
and feet dusky brown; bare skin at
the corner of the mouth thick, fleshy, prominent, ao ofa re peo iris dark brown ” (Gould).
Total length 11-5 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 5:75, ‘eal 4°25, rel Ite | a

Adult female. Very similar to the male, but without the lilac-coloured band on ae S
being of the same colour as the head, and eed from the “mantle by the ree : : i
lighter and more umber-brown than the back. Total length 11-5 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 0°7, tai :
tarsus 1:6.

atter

The figure in the Plate represents a male of this species drawn from a specimen in the British
Museum.

 

- D.
BOWER OF THE SPOTTED BOWER-BIR

From a sketch by Mr. North.