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sagittate markings on the least series rufous buff, larger and more 

 yellow on the greater and median coverts, which are also very 

 minutely vermiculated with blackish, as on the inner scapulars ; 

 the outer webs of the spurious quills notched with buffy white ; 

 primary coverts blackish on the inner web, bay on the outer, mot- 

 tled with broNVTi venniculations, darker near the base, and having, 

 near the tips of the shafts, longitudinal fulvous streaks ; quills ex- 

 ternally light baj-, broadly barred with rufous or rufous brown, the 

 interspaces whitish on the outer web of the primaries, giving a 

 chequered appearance to the outer aspect of the wing, all the quills 

 blackish on their inner webs, barred with lighter or more rufous 

 brown, the primaries rufous at the tips of both webs ; secondaries 

 deep bay, almost uniform externally, or with a slight appearance of 

 dusky bars, the innermost secondaries with indications of whitish 

 spots resembling the scapulars ; upper tail-coverts deep chestnut, 

 like the back, with similar small fulvous spots ; tail deep bay, 

 tipped with fulvous, barred across with blackish, but very indi- 

 stinctly, the dark bars scarcely visible on the outer webs of the 

 feathers, the centre ones also almost uniform ; forehead greyish 

 white, and very broad, narrowly barred with blackish, the hinder 

 feathers tipped -with the same colour as the head, and resembling 

 the crown, the grey colour of the forehead extending backwards 

 along the side of the head to the ear- tufts, which are 1'2 inch long, 

 the basal plumes being greyish white, narrowly barred with black, 

 like the forehead, the longer plumes externally bay, barred and 

 broadly tipped with blackish, and further varied with a few zigzag 

 lines of the same, the inner webs for the most part greyish white, 

 slightly barred and vermiculated with dark brown lines : lores and 

 feathers round the eye chestnut, with lighter shaft-lines of buff ; 

 ear-coverts greyish white, with indistinct mottKngs, the hinder ones 

 tipped with blackish : behind the ear-coverts an indisrinct ruff of 

 whitish plumes, tipped with blackish, and narrowly crossed with 

 blackish lines ; cheeks greyish wliite, with dusky brown cross lines ; 

 chin-feathers chestnut ; rest of imder surface pale sandy buff, much 

 deeper on the chest, which is vermiculated with blackish wavy cross 

 lines, broader and more rufescent on the centre of the chest, which 

 has also distinct spots of white, these spots generally containing a 

 central irregular spot of dark brown ; on the breast and flanks the 

 brown vermiculations wider apart and less distinct, varied with 

 white bars and spots of brown ; the under tail-coverts paler, and 

 with scarcely any markings at all ; leg-feathers bay, paler and 

 more fulvescent on the tarsus, distinctly barred with blackish ; 

 under wing-coverts rufous buff, with a patch of rufous-brown fea- 

 thers near the edge of the wing, which is whitish, the lower series 

 blackish brown, fidvous at base, resembling the inner lining of the 

 quills, notched with buff on the inner webs, the tips of the quills 

 rufous below, the dusky bars disappearing ; bill yellow ; feet appa- 

 rently yellow in life. Total length 10 inches, wing 7-15, tail 4-5, 

 tarsus 1-25. 

 Hah. Malacca. 



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