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Show 1875.J ON THE DEEP PLANTAR TENDONS IN BIRDS. 339 distinguished the species, and it has a tolerably distinct crest. I subjoin a description of this adult bird :- Adult. Above clear brown, with a purplish shade, many of the feathers with paler edgings, especially the upper wing-coverts; spurious quills and primary coverts uniform purplish black, with a very slightly indicated whitish tip; quills purplish brown, barred across with black on the inner web, these black bars more distinct on the secondaries, which are paler and are barred across, the tips being conspicuously white, the innermost secondaries uniform pale brown like the back; lower back and rump rather darker brown ; the upper tail-coverts very light, tipped and barred externally with white ; tail grey, tipped with white, and crossed with eight blackish bars, the subterminal one rather the broadest; forehead whitish; crown of the head purplish black, the feathers lanceolate and forming an occipital crest; sides of the face and neck all round tawny-coloured, with mesial black shaft-streaks to all the feathers; the ear-coverts rather more dingy brown but narrowly streaked with black in the same manner, these streaks much broader on the cheeks and forming a distinct moustache; under surface of the body white, the feathers streaked with black on the throat and chest, these streaks disappearing gradually on the abdomen ; many of the throat- and breast-feathers washed with pale tawny, as also the flanks-the abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts having very few of these markings and being nearly uniform white; upper wing-coverts white, with a few brown streaks, the innermost deep chestnut, streaked with black. Total length 21 inches, culmen 1*65, wing 15*7, tail 9*7, tarsus about 2*85. GYPOICTINIA MELANOSTERNA (Gould) : Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 335. A specimen of this extremely rare Kite is in the collection; and I have the pleasure of exhibiting it to the Society. It will be seen from the tarsus with its scaled hinder aspect and its long wings that the bird is a Kite and not a Buzzard at all. Mr. Gould's plate in the ** Birds of Australia ' does not show these peculiarities, and gives a wrong idea of the bird in consequence. Besides the Hawks above mentioned, Mr. White collected specimens of Falco subniger, F. hypoleucus, F. lunulatus, and the rarer Striges, such as Strix tenebricosa, &c. 6, O n the Disposition of the Deep Plantar Tendons in different Birds. By A. H . G A R R O D , B.A., F.Z.S., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Prosector to the Society. [Received March 30, 1875.] The arrangement of the tendons in the palm of the hand and the sole of the foot among the Mammalia is a subject of great intricacy, as 22* |