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with only here and there a faint indication of a lighter sandy-colonred 

 bar, those represented on the outer web by a very distinct whitish 

 notch, even on the secondaries, the innermost of which are vermi- 

 culated like the back, with indications of four or five cross bars of 

 sandy buff; rump and upper tail-coverts more rufous than the back, 

 the vcrmiculations being very indistinct, except towards the tips of 

 the latter, which are also narrowly barred across with white ; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, mottled with sandy buff vcrmiculations, and 

 having indications of about ten irregular bands of the same colour, 

 disappearing gradually towards the tips of the feathers, which arc 

 entirely vermiculated with sandy colour, and inclining to white on 

 the outer web of the external rectrices ; loral plumes white, with 

 narrow terminal black margins, the shafts also black, and produced 

 into hair-like bristles ; the frontal plumes also white, tipped and 

 centred with black, these light feathers extending backwards towards 

 the ear-tufts, which are sandy buff on the inner web, and barred 

 with black on the outer ; feathers round the eye rufous ; ear-coverts 

 and sides of face greyish white, with a few indications of obscure 

 brown bars, more distinct on the hinder ear-coverts, and merging in 

 the hue of black-tipped feathers that mark the facial ruff, the plumes 

 composing which arc buff on the sides of the head, but become whiter 

 on the throat, where they are not so broadly tipped or barred with 

 black ; sides of neck dark brown, but very plainly mottled with bars 

 of greyish white ; chin-feathers whitish ; rest of under surface of 

 body for the most part white, washed with sandy buff on the chest, 

 most of the feathers with broad black centres, those on the chest 

 with lateral zigzag lines of brown, increasing in number and blacker 

 in proportion on the abdomen- and flank-feathers, many of which 

 have concealed sandy buff bars, excepting those on the side of the 

 vent and the under tail-coverts, which are very plainly barred with 

 the latter colour, each bar having two conterminous zigzag lines of 

 blackish ; leg-feathers bright tawny, with narrow bars of blackish, 

 the tarsal plumes huffy white, narrowly streaked with black ; under 

 wing-coverts fulvous, the edge of the wing white, the feathers 

 adjoining being dark brown, mottled ^vith sandy buff spots, the lower 



Leg of <S'. bourmnsis. 



series ashy brown, fulvous at base, and resembling the inner lining 

 of the quills, which arc ashj" brown, barred with fulvous on the 



