All the upper surface bright yellowish olive; the feathers of the head
with an indistinct line of brown down the centre; wings brown; tail
brown, deepening into black near the extremity, and with a large oval
spot of white on the inner web near the tip of all but the two central
feathers; all the under surface bright yellow.
The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
2. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as
printed.
3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2 of 7, by John Gould
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