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patch of dusky from lower part of suborbital region to end of auricular 

 region, this last, however, sometimes indistinct or even obsolete; 

 chin and median portion of upper throat, sometimes also lower throat 

 and anterior portion of malar region, immaculate; prevailing color 

 of back and scapulars black, but this much broken by broad edgings 

 of brownish buff and bars or U-shaped lines of cinnamon; lesser 

 wing-coverts dusky brownish gray, broadly tipped with white and 

 more or less barred with pale brown or brownish huffy, especially on 

 proximal coverts, the anterior lesser coverts, however, nearly plain 

 dusk}^ brownish gray; larger middle coverts, greater coverts, and 

 primary coverts dusky, abruptly and rather broadly tipped with 

 white, the secondaries similar but with white tips much narrower 

 and less abrupt; primaries dusky, narrowly and indistinctly margined 

 with white at tips; upper rump brownish gray, the feathers tipped or 

 terminally margined with pale gray or grayish white; lower rump 

 and upper tail-coverts pale huffy brown, irregularly marked with 

 black; middle rectrices black with distal portion, abruptly, reddish 

 cinnamon (sayal brown) passing into white terminally, the white tip 

 separated from the cinnamon-colored portion by a curved sub- 

 terminal bar of black, the cinnamomeous portion sometimes with a few 

 irregular narrow markings of black; lateral pair of rectrices white, 

 immaculate for the greater part of inner web and terminal third 

 (more or less) of outer web, the proximal portion of outer web with 

 several spots of dusky; intermediate rectrices intermediate in color 

 between the middle and lateral pairs ; f oreneck and chest brownish 

 buffy or pale vinaceous-buff, irregularly spotted and streaked with 

 dusky; rest of under parts dull white, the breast more or less barred 

 (irregularly) with dusky, the sides and flanks with more regular and 

 much larger dusky bars; abdomen sometimes immaculate or nearly 

 so superficially (always with concealed bars, however?); under tail- 

 coverts buffy, irregularly marked with black; axillars and imder 

 wing-coverts barred with white and grayish dusky, the bars of nearly 

 equal width and more or less > -shaped, especially on axillars; bill 

 brownish (in dried skins), becoming much darker terminally; legs and 

 feet brownish (in dried skins). 



Young. — "Much more rufous than adults, and having the black of 

 the upper parts more uniform, the lateral edges to the scapular 

 feathers not so distinct; the inner greater coverts and inner second- 

 aries regularly barred with black and rufous, the bars being of about 

 equal width; the white tips to the wing-coverts not so distinct and 

 slightly tinged with buff; the sides of the face and hind-neck much 

 more rufous than in the adults, and the white upper breast also 

 showing dusky circular bars; the white outer tail-feathers also 

 barred with dusky brown." " 



a Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 629, 630. 



