ay

both webs: “bill black; feet dark lead-colour; iris chestnut”

tawny on
> (Beccari). Total length 13:3 inches, culmen 2°8, wing 5-95
5 V;

ashy brown, edged with
(D Alberts) ; «iris violescent brown ’

tail 5°5, tarsus 1:4.
Adult female. Ditters from the male in altogether wanting the ornamental plumes; the throat and cheeks

brown, with indistinct linear streaks of blackish; the under surface of the body fulvescent, barred with

dusky brown, the markings on the
the bars wider apart and more
culmen 3:4, wing 5°9, tail 4:9, tarsus 1°35.

adult female in colour.

late Mr. Gould’s ‘Birds of New Guinea,’ and the

fore-neck and breast rather duller, and the cross-bars somewhat
C

concentric, distinct on the lower breast and abdomen. Total length
5

12°5 inches,
The young male at first resembles the
The Plate is the same as that published in the

descriptions are taken from examples in the British Museum.