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lateral stripes becoming much narrower, and sometimes less distinct, 

 on forehead; a superciliary stripe of pale brownish buff or duU buffy 

 whitish, this very broad above lores, much narrower above auricular 

 region, where narrowly streaked with dusky, the anterior portion 

 minutely flecked (more or less) with the same; a broad loral stiipe, 

 extending from bill to anterior angle of eye, of dusky brown, more or 

 less broken by pale buffy brown spots or flecks ; malar, suborbital and 

 auricular regions, chin and upper throat duU brownisli wliite, flecked, 

 except on last two, with dusky grayisli brown, tlie auricular region 

 crossed, diagonally, from about middle of malar region to end of 

 auriculars, by a stripe of dusky intermixed, more or less, with light 

 buffy brown or cinnamon; neck, all round, pale brownish buffy, 

 rather broadly streaked with dusky grayisli brown, the streaks 

 darker on hindneck, paler (light fuscous or hair brown) on foreneck, 

 where the streaks are sometimes coalesced into two indistinctly 

 defined parallel stripes; chest pale brownish buffy or very pale buffy 

 brown, transversely spotted or clouded with liglit grayish brown; 

 rest of under parts (except under tail-coverts) white, immaculate 

 medially, the sides and flanks broadly barred with dusky grayish 

 brown, the bars nearly as wide as the white interspaces; under tail- 

 coverts Iniff, with irregular, partly V-siia])ed, markings of blackisli; 

 axillars very regularly barred with dusky slate and white, the dusky 

 bars rather wider than the white interspaces: under wing-coverts 

 similarly but less regularly barred; scapulars and inter-scapulars 

 black, broadly and sharply edged with ])uff , or })ufr and white, tliese 

 buffy or whitish edgings forming four conspicuous stripes, the black, 

 especially on scapulars, more or less broken by an irregular spotting 

 or marbling of bufly brown (sayal brown or wood brown) ; wing- 

 coverts grayish brown or dusky, tipped with dull wliitisli, the tci'tials 

 black, narrowly margined with wliite (except in worn plumage) and 

 irregularly barred with buffy brown (wood brown) ; secondaries deep 

 brownish gray with broad terminal margins of white; primaries and 

 primary coverts darker brownisli gray or dusky, margined at tips 

 with paler (primary coverts and proximal primaries sometimes nar- 

 rowly tipped with wliite), the outer web of outermost primary white 

 or broadly edged witn white; upper rump grayish brown or dusky, 

 tlie feathers tipped with grayish white; lower rump and upper tail 

 coverts light brownish buffy, barred witli dusky, the bars broader, 

 more irregular, and nearly black on lateral coverts; tail dusky for 

 about proximal two-thirds, the dusky more or less broken distally by 

 spots of brownisli gray and buffy, the terminal third cinnamon 

 rufous or mikado brown passing into whitish terminally and crossed 

 by a subterminal bar of black — the outermost rectrix, however, with- 

 out cinnamon-rufous, but broadly barred with dull whitish and 

 dusky, the latter predominating basally, where tlie paler bars do not 



