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velvety-black plumes with
awny buff along the inner edge ;

4 narrow steel-green tip; under wing-coverts dusky browns quills dusky brow

below, t bill horny whitish. Total length 12°56 inches, culmen 3:1, an a

tail 4:3, tarsus 1-4. 5 U4;

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rown, with a slight tinge of olive ; wing-coverts like the back, the
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also lent me a female and young male of the present species. The former closel
agrees with the d irds of New Guinea,’ slightly modified, as follows :— ,

Adult female, General colour above b
outer median and the greater coverts washed externally with
the latter shaded with fawn near the base; quills dusky brown, externally pale reddish
fawn-colour on the outer web; upper tail-coverts a cailfonie

dull fawu-colour ; bastard-wing and primary

coverts dusky brown,
brown, the secondaries washed with
crown of head blackish, the feather
lores and a line of feathers frot > wane % ; °

and < athers n the gape along the side of the face

chestnut-brown ; s being of a velvety texture; the hind neck also shaded
with blackish ; sides of face bare ; a
blackish, the cheeks whity brown, black anteriorly, followed by a broad malar line of black; throat and
under surface of body pale fawn-buff, regularly barred with blackish, the throat and foreiece oan fe
and the cross bars smaller and more indistinct; the abdomen clearer buff, and the bars wider and =e

sides of body and flanks like the abdomen; thighs and under tail-coverts also fawn-buff, barred
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with blackish ; on each side of the fore-neck a blackish patch, relieved by triangular spots of yellowish buff;
under wing-coverts and axillaries paler fawn-buff than the breast and indistinctly barred ; quills below a :
fawn-buff along the inner edge. Total length 12 inches, culmen 2°7, wing 5°6, tail 4°3, tarsus 1-25. 2

The young male in Mr. Rothschild’s collection is very like the adult, but still retains the barred abdomer
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It is therefore evident th > sexes are alike 1 i
t that the sexes are alike in their first plumage, and the

of the immature plumage.
direct moult, as I cannot trace any sign of change in the pattern of

male appears to get his full livery by a
any of the feathers.
The descriptions are taken from the above-mentioned specimens in the Rothschild collection. The figure

of the rn as ithogre > Mr | :
1e male has been lithographed by Mr. Hart from a sketch made by Mr. Keulemans of the specimen in

the Paris Museum, while that of the female is from Dr. Guillemard’s bird.