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fuaely vermicnlated ■with ashy white in the form of zigzag cross 

 markings ; scapulars nearly entirely orange-buff on the outer web, 

 inclining to white near the tip, and regularly crossed with rather 

 narrow bars of brown, the tips being mottled with brown ; head 

 and neck, as mentioned above, more orange-buff than the back, the 

 bases to the feathers showing very conspicuously, all of them 

 blackish brown at tip, crossed with zigzag bars of ashy white ; wing- 

 coverts blackish, especially the lesser series and those near the edge 

 of the wing, these being only slightly vermiculated and barred with 

 ashy white, the median and greater series more largely mottled with 

 ashy white, the orange-buff bases to the feathers being also rather 

 conspicuous, the greater series distinctly whitish at their tips, with 

 several zigzag cross lines of brown ; primary coverts rcgiilai'ly barred 

 with dark brown and tawny buff in alternate 1 auds, like the quills, 

 the light bars slightly mottled with brown ; primaries dark brown 

 barred with tawny buff, more broadly on the inner web, these bars 

 slightly obscured with brown vermiculations, especially towards the 

 tips of the feathers, the secondaries alternately barred with dark 

 brown and tawny buff in about equal proportions, the light bars 

 vermiculated with brown on the outer web, the innermost secon- 

 daries being brown strongly vermiculated with ashy Avhite, and 

 thus resembling the scapulars ; lower back orange-buff, with a few 

 zigzag cross markings of brown, increasing in extent on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts, which are brown at their tips, vermiculated 

 with ashy white like the rest of the back ; tail dark brown, tipped 

 with whitish and crossed with several zigzag lines of buffy white, 

 indicating about seven bars on the middle feathers, inclining to buff 

 near the base, the other feathers tawny buff on the inner web barred 

 with brown, the outer web also alternately barred with brown and 

 tawny buff, the external bars of this colour pretty clear on the outer 

 feathers, but more or less clouded towards the centre of the tail ; 

 lores and feathers over the eye white, the shafts blackish at tip ; 

 plumes below the eye and ear-coverts tawny buff, the latter black 

 at tip, forming a tolerably broad circular line down the sides of the 

 nock ; behind this black line a ruff of tawny feathers, whitish at 

 tip, with a brown subterminal bar on the sides of the throat and 

 cheeks, the feathers being very long and stiff, tawny buff with broad 

 central streaks, these plumes continued across the throat, and sepa- 

 rating the chin from the fore neck, both of the latter being pure 

 white ; rest of under surface of body white, thickly crossed with 

 zigzag bars of blackish brown, all the bases to the feathers orange- 

 buff, showing conspicuously ; the centre of the breast white ; the 

 chest and the sides of the upper breast with large spots of black ; 

 leg- feathers buffy whitish, washed with orange-buff ; under tail- 

 coverts whitish, narrowlj' barred across with brown ; under wing- 

 coverts white, scantily spotted with dark brown, those near the 

 edge of the wing with rather larger brown spots, and inclining to 

 bright orange-buff, the lowest series blackish with buffy white bases, 

 resembling thus the inner lining of the quills, which are blackish 

 brown barred with buffy white ; ear-tufts 2-6 inches long, blackish 



