36 BUBONin.r., 



colour being paler and more hoary ; ear-tufts nearlj' uniform dark 

 brown, lighter at the base and vermieulated with greyish on the 

 inner web ; scapulars ratlier browner than the back, the mesial 

 brown streaks being very distinct, the outermost with large yel- 

 lowish white markings, these more or less mottled with brown, but 

 forming a tolerably distinct shoulder-patch ; wing-coverts resembling 

 the back and vermieulated in exactly the same manner, the centres 

 to the feathers darker brown, the outer median and greater coverts 

 with distinct rounded spots of yellowish white ; primary coverts ashy 

 brown, broadly banded with darker brown ; quills ashy brown, the 

 primaries tinged with fulvous, all crossed with broad bands of darker 

 bro^vn, the light interspaces minutely vermieulated and dotted with 

 brown, the innermost secondaries thickly vermieulated and resem- 

 bling the back ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ashy 

 brown, numerously crossed with rather narrow fulvous cross bars, 

 the latter vermicmated with fulvous ; tail dark brown, broadly tipped 

 with buffy white, and crossed with four other broad bands of deeper 

 buff, these bands very distinct on all excepting the two centre 

 feathers, which have the light bands very much obscirred with 

 brownish vermiculations, even extending to the apical whitish band ; 

 lores and feathers in front of the eye white, with hair-like black 

 shaft-streaks ; sides of face greyish brown, lighter behind the eye, 

 all the feathers with narrow mesial streaks of blackish, the hinder 

 margin of the ear-coverts dark brown, forming a longitudinal patch, 

 which is succeeded by a tolerably well-defined ruff of fulvous plumes 

 sHghtly vermieulated with greyish brown and streaked down the 

 centre with darker brown ; chin whitish ; rest of under surface of 

 body greyish white, with distinct mesial streaks of darker brown to 

 all the feathers, which are also faintly but regularly barred across 

 with zigzag lines of brown, the bars rather further apart on the 

 abdomen, which consequently appears lighter than the breast ; lower 

 throat crossed with an indistinct bar of long fulvous feathers with 

 dark brown centres in continuation of the facial ruff; bases to the 

 feathers of the fore neck whitish, giving an indistinct appearance of 

 a throat-patch ; leg-feathers fulvescent, very narrowly barred across 

 Avith zigzag lines of brown ; under wing-coverts fulvescent, with 

 dark brown shaft-lines, and crossed with irregular narrow bars of 

 broMU, broader on the outermost, the lower series yellowish at base, 

 dark brown at tip, forming a wing-bar and resembling the inner 

 lining of the quills, which are dark brown below, broadly barred 

 with yellowish buff on the web ; " legs and feet feathered, the latter 

 sparsely ; terminal joint bare, pale grey, with one or two large, soft, 

 transverse scales ; claws black ; irides deep yellow ; bill greyish 

 white or pale lavender, with the tips and culmen pale yellowish 

 horny" (Hume). Total length 21 inches, wing 16-4, tail 8-5, tar- 

 sus 2-65. 



Yotmg. Like the adult, but paler and not showing any distinct 

 ear-tufts, the vermiculations on the back much broader and lighter, 

 the ear-coverts rather darker than the head and greyer ; under sur- 

 face of body lighter than the back, less distinctlj" vermieulated, and 



