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ginous about the middle of the inner web ; the secondary quills 

 the darkest, and all more or less tipped with ferruginous, ex- 

 cept on the upper parts of the back ; and those on the back of 

 the neck are deeply margined with that colour : the lower part 

 of the rump, and coverts of the tail, white, with a few 

 streaks of bright ferruginous : the lesser coverts of the wings 

 are deeply margined with ferruginous ; the chin is dusky 

 brown : the whole under parts, from chin to vent, includ- 

 ing the thighs, under tail-coverts, and under coverts of the 

 wings, bright ferruginous without spot, except the shafts, being 

 somewhat darker, appearing on close inspection like fine slen- 

 der streaks ; the tail-feathers have five alternate darker, and 

 five paler bars, but the upper ones are nearly obsolete ; these 

 bars on the outer feathers are bright ferruginous and white, 

 with one bar near the end darker ; the second is similar, but 

 has the ferruginous bars inclining to chocolate-brown, and 

 the white ones run into pale ferruginous on the outer webs ; 

 the three next become gradually darker, with the pale bars less 

 conspicuous, and more ferruginous than white ; the two middle 

 feathers have the bars marked only by a shade of difference in 

 colour, and are scarcely defined." 



