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blackish at tip ; feathers over the front of the eye also white, with 

 narrow blackish tips ; feathers round the eye sandy brown, mottled 

 with blackish; ear-coverts greyish white, barred across with brown, 

 and having the appearance of being sti'eaked with the latter colour ; 

 behind the ear-coverts an indistinct ruff of orange-buff plumes tipped 

 with black, those on the throat and cheeks white, more nari'owly 

 tipped with a line of black ; chin white ; sides of neck greyish, with 

 very minute blackish vermiculations, and distinctly spotted or barred 

 here and there with wliitc ; chest white, the feathers washed with 

 orange-buff and crossed with several zigzag lines of dark brown, these 

 increasing in number towards the tips of the plumes ; aU the cross 

 lines disappearing on the rest of the underparts, which are nearly 

 entirely white, some of them showing a dark shaft-streak, this being, 

 however, more apparent on some of the feathers of the chest ; under 

 tail-coverts pure white, with only the faintest remains of zigzag lines 

 at the tips of a few of them ; thigh-feathers tawny, gradually 

 shading off into white on the tarsus, and distinctly mottled with dark 

 brown cross lines ; under wing- coverts yellowish white, the outer- 

 most dark brown spotted with tawny buff, the lower series ashy 

 brown, yellowish at the base, and thus resembling the inner lining 

 of the quills, which are ashy brown barred with yellowish on the 

 inner web, the outer web of the primaries notched with buff, and 

 the tips of all mottled with didl sandy colour ; bill dull horn- 

 colour, the under mandible yellowish ; feet apparently yellowish 

 flesh-colour in life. Total length 7*5 inches, wing 5-5, tail 2*4, 

 tarsus 1. 



Rufous phase. Above tawny rufous, with very fine (almost indi- 

 stinguishable) vermiculations, the hind neck mottled with fulvous 

 bars, some of them inclining to white ; scapiilars externally white, 

 with a blackish terminal bar, some of the greater wing-coverts tipped, 

 and the bastard wing externally notched with white, the vermicula- 

 tions rather more coarsely vermiculated with blackish ; quiUs sandy 

 rufous externally barred with brown, the primaries notched with 

 white, giving the wing a chequered appearance, the inner webs 

 brown, notched with fulvous ; tail sandy brown, paler at tip, and 

 crossed with five bands of pale rufous ; head deeper tawny rufous 

 than the back, more strongly mottled with black ; lores and feathers 

 over the fore part of the eye whitish, narrowly tipped with dusky, 

 the lores shaded with rufous ; sides of face and ear-coverts greyish, 

 indistinctly barred across with black ; chin whitish ; sides of neck 

 and chest sandy orange, mottled with brown, and with more or less 

 concealed bars of white ; the breast orange, slightly vermiculated 

 and barred with white, the black streaks to the centres of the feathers 

 very broad, less so on the abdomen and flanks, the lower parts of the 

 body being white as in the brown phase, the vermiculations not 

 numerous^ on the belly, and disappearing on the under tail-coverts ; 

 bill dusky, yellowish on the under mandible. Total length 7 inches, 

 wing 5-35, tail 2-G, tarsus 0-95. (Malacca, Maingay : Mus. 

 Walden.) 



