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fulvous, and crossed with narrow bars of blackish ; on the scapulars 

 the blackish cross lines a little more coarsely defined than on the 

 back, washed with orange-buiF, and having the outer web pure white 

 tipped with black, forming a conspicuous shoulder-patch ; wing- 

 coverts greyish like the back, the vermiculations very faint and often 

 obsolete on the greater series, which have rather large white spots 

 on the outer web, the median coverts coarsely vermiculatcd with 

 sandy buff, the feathers with blackish shaft-streaks, the least series 

 rufous with obscuie blackish cross vermiculations, the outermost of 

 the greater series and the primary coverts strongly rufescent, almost 

 chestnut in tone, the latter finely vermiculated with blackish ; inner- 

 most secondary quills coloured like the back, and finely vermicidated 

 in the same manner, their centres streaked with dusky blackish along 

 the shaft, the rest of the quilLs rufous, barred with dusky brown, 

 these bars more or less vermiculated, the inner webs almost entirely 

 dusky brown, barred with pale rufous inclining to yellowish on the 

 inner web, the rufous bars on the outer web of the primaries inclining 

 to white, and producing a somewhat chequered appearance; upper 

 tail-coverts exactly like the back, the centre tail-feathers likewise 

 strongly resembling the upper surface, inasmuch as they are without 

 any distinct trace of cross bars, the outer feathers dark brown, ver- 

 miculated with sandy rufous, and crossed with seven bars of rufous, 

 the subterminal one very indistinct, and lost in the vermiculations at 

 the tips, the light bars inclining to white on the outer edge of the 

 external web ; loral plumes whitish, the shafts black, and produced 

 into long hair-like bristles ; feathers over the eye huffy white, tipped 

 ■with blackish ; sides of face dusky grey, indistinctly varied with fine 

 cross lines of dull brown ; behind the ear-coverts a tolerably distinct 

 ruff of orange-buff feathers, broadly tipped with black, 'this ruff 

 extending across the throat, but the feathers here finely barred with 

 blackish ; chin-feathers dull white ; chest dull orange-buff, the 

 feathers broadly centred with black and crossed with a few narrow 

 zigzag lines of brown and vermiculated with the same at the tips, 

 many of the feathers inclining to white ; on the breast and the rest 

 of the lower parts the white predominates, many of the feathers only 

 having a few zigzag markings of brown, on many of them a strong 

 tinge of rufous ^\-ith broad black central streaks ;" some of the flank- 

 feathers slightly washed with grey ; under tail-coverts almost entirely 

 white, excepting an arrow-shaped mark of rufous or brown near the 

 tip ; leg-feathers buffy white, the tarsus slightly streaked with 

 brown ; under wing-coverts fulvous, those near the edge of the wing 

 mottled with brown, the lower series ashy brown with yellowish 

 white bases, the quills being also ashy brown below, but inclining to 

 rufous near the tips, the bands being entirely of this colour, and 

 fulvous only near the base of the inner webs. Total length 8 inches, 

 wing 5-1, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-85. 

 Hah. Eastern Ghauts. 



c- Ad. sk. Madras : Eastern Ghauts. Dr. Jerdon [C.]. 



