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shaped spots, the thighs and under tail coverts with fewer and smaller 

 spots or none at all; under wing coverts white, a few of the greater 

 outer ones with some narrow dusky bars; cere and edge of eyelid 

 gamboge yellow; bill blackish; abruptly bluish at base from below 

 nostril; iris King's yellow; feet deep cadmium, claws black; inside of 

 mouth purplish pink. 



Adult female. — Above, head, neck, scapulars, interscapulars, upper 

 wing coverts, remiges, and back sepia to Saccardo's umber or olive- 

 brown, the feathers of the crown, occiput, and nape edged laterally 

 with rufous to tawny-buff; the lesser upper wing coverts and scapulars 

 irregularly blotched with light pinkish cinnamon to cinnamon, this 

 color irregularly bordering and indenting the feathers; remiges, es- 

 pecially the primaries, becoming whitish basally on the inner web, 

 and more or less obscurely banded with four to six narrow bars of 

 dark sepia, the bars becoming distinct on the whitish areas of the 

 inner webs; feathers of the rump like the back but with narrow 

 rufescent or tawny tips and edges ; upper tail coverts white, contrasting 

 sharply with the rump and with the tail; central pair of rectrices 

 Saccardo's umber to sepia, sometimes with a grayish cast; tipped with 

 tawny whitish and crossed by six or seven regular, sharply defined, 

 but not very contrasting bands of dark olive-brown, basally whitish; 

 other tail feathers paler, more washed with tawny and becoming 

 progressively slightly paler toward the outermost pair, the lateral 

 ones being nearly pale cream or pale ochraceous; the dark bars, 

 however, become darker on the lateral rectrices, pale fuscous, slightly 

 paler again on the outermost pair; lores, superciliaries, and suborbital 

 stripes dull buff to buffy white leaving a dusky stripe between them 

 running back from the posterior angle of the eye; auriculars dull dark 

 rufous to snuff brown indistinctly streaked with darker brown; 

 feathers of the facial disk pale cream to pale tawny, each with a 

 median stripe of dark snuff brown to pale fuscous; chin and upper 

 throat dirty white to pale buff, similar to the orbital and superciliary 

 stripes; lower throat and breast like the upper throat, but each feather 

 with a broad shaft stripe of snuff brown to tawny cinnamon and some- 

 times the whole area washed with cinnamon; abdomen, thighs, sides, 

 flanks, and under tail coverts whitish more or less washed with cinna- 

 mon to buff and usually with numerous (few in some cases) longitudinal 

 stripes of Saccardo's umber to orange-cinnamon, these stripes becom- 

 ing smaller posteriorly where they may become mere shaft lines 

 broadening subterminally into small w^edge-shaped spots; the streaks 

 on the sides usually long and narrow; under wing coverts whitish more 

 or less washed with buff or tawny streaked with dark umber to fuscous; 

 under surface of primaries dull white; crossed at wide intervals with 

 wavy dark sepia bands; iris pale gray-brown to Vandyke brown; 



