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Adult female. General colour above pale brown, with light greyish 

 edgings to the feathers, the uj^per tail-coverts being faintly mar- 

 gined with olive-yellow : wings brown, the feathers margined with 

 light greyish white or whity brown, the greater wing-coverts and 

 inner secondaries faintly M-ashed with olive-yellow externally ; tail- 

 feathers light brown, externally washed with an olive-yellow shade, 

 absent on the outermost, all the feathers tipped with whitish ; sides 

 of face dusky pale brown ; under surface dull white, the feathers 

 mesially streaked with brown, not so distinctly on the throat; 

 thighs pale brown, as also the under wing-coverts ; under surface 

 of quills brown, with the inner webs pale brown for the greater part 

 of their extent ; bill pale brownish (in skin), legs blackish. Total 

 length 10-2 inches, culmcn 0-9, wing 4-8, tail 4-45, tarsus 0-9. 



Young female. Similar to the old female, but with more distinct 

 ohve-yellow margins to the feathers of the upper surface, the under 

 surface being also someAvhat washed with yellow ; quills dark brown, 

 edged with light olive-yellow, the coverts broadly margined with 

 yellowish buff. 



Young male. Similar at first to the young female ; but afterwards 

 the gradual disappearance of the stripes on the breast and the 

 assumption of the black head is very distinctly indicated. 



Hab. Timor and Semao. 



f • ^f St- Timor. Masseua Collection. 



^- -'^*i- St- Timor. Pm-chased. 



c S ad., d e. Imm. sk. Timor. A. E. Wallace, Esq. fC ] 



/. \_d J ad., y. juv. sk. E. Timor. A. R. WaUace, Esq. | C.l. 



f $a(isk. E.Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. rc.l. 



h k. 6 $ juy. sk. Semao Island. A. R. Wallace, Esq. rC.i. 



/, m. (S $ ad. sk. Timor Coupong. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



