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a some-what distinct appearance of bars on many of the feathers of 

 the npper surface, every feather of which is minutely and almost 

 in\-isil)ly vermiculated with blackish lines ; scapulars more or less 

 ochraceous buff on the outer web, arranged in broad bars, inclining 

 to white on the lower scapulars ; wing-coverts sandy brown like the 

 back, and with bars of ochraceous buff as on the dorsal plumes, the 

 outer coverts near the edge of the wing very distinctly notched with 

 buff; primary coverts dull sandy brown, vermiculated with blackish, 

 forming indications of cross bars ; quills blackish, nearly uniform on 

 the inner web of the primaries, excepting for a few sandy brown 

 bars at the tip, these quills notched on the outer web with white 

 or rufous, the secondaries not notched with these colours externally, 

 but being generally of a sandy brown tint, vermiculated with black, 

 giving the appearance of irregular bars, which are more plainly cha- 

 racterized on the inner web, especially towards the base, which is 

 wholly blackish ; tail sandy brown, vermiculated with zigzag blackish 

 lines, and having tolerably distinct bars of black on the inner web 

 of the external feathers, about ten being distinguishable on the 

 outer tail-feathers ; loral plumes sandy brown, whitish at base, the 

 shafts elongated into black hair-like biistles ; feathers over the fore 

 part of the eye white, washed with rufous, and terminally tipped 

 ■with brown ; ear-coverts sandy brown, barred with blackish cross 

 lines : behind the car-coverts an indistijict ruff of sandy buff feathers, 

 terminally barred with black ; chin buffy white ; throat sandy buff, 

 with mesial streaks of black and lateral zigzag lines to each feather ; 

 rest of under surface greyish sandy, all the feathers minutely waved 

 with linear trausverniiculatious and varied -with white bars, these 

 being narrow and indistinct on the chest, much broader on the flanks 

 and sides of the body ; long plumes at the sides of the vent broadly 

 banded vrith buffy white, much broader than the sandy bars ; under 

 tail-coverts yellowish white, with one or two sandy bars near the 

 tips of the feathers ; leg-feathers fulvous, with distinct linear streaks 

 of black ; under wing-coverts sandy buff, more yellowish on the inner 

 ones and on the edge of the wing, the plumes near the margin marked 

 with wavy lines and vermiculations of blackish ; the lowest series 

 ashy brown, fulvous at base, resembling the inner lining of the 



Leg of S. }ue»adensis. 



quills, which are ashy brown, barred with fulvous for the whole ex- 

 tent of tlic inner web, the lower apex of the quills numerously barred 



