36G TiMELiin^. 



Young birds resemble the adults, but have the upper parts brown, indistinctly margined 

 with pale rufous; upper tail-coverts dark brown, more conspicuously tipped with rufous ; wings 

 paler brown than in the adult, the white tips to the wing-coverts and inner secondaries also 

 washed with rufous; crown of the head and nape dull chestnut; the broad white eye-brow 

 washed with chestnut; ear-coverts brown, streaked with white; sides of the neck ashy-brown, 

 some of the feathers with blackish centres; cheeks, throat, and centre of the body white, slightly 

 tinned with rufous, more distinctly on the centre of the breast; sides of the breast rufous; 

 abdomen dull white with ashy-brown centres; under tail-coverts ashy-brown, tipped with white 

 which is slightly washed with rufous. 



July and the five following months constitute the usual breeding season of this species. 



