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like the head, the inner webs yellowish near the base ; round the 

 hind neck an indistinct collar, caused by yellowish buflf bars and 

 bases of the feathers showing when the plumage is disturbed ; the 

 scapulars white on the outer web, tipped with black, forming a 

 distinct longitudinal bar doM-n each side of the back ; wing-coverts 

 coloured like the back, the greater series externally white near the 

 tip, the spurious quills also notched with white on the outer web ; 

 primaiy-eoverts dusky brown on the inner, and dull bay on the 

 outer web, barred -n-ith dark brown ; quills bay, dull brown on the 

 inner web, and barred -with dark brown, the representative bars on 

 the outer web more or less shaded with rufous, the primaries exter- 

 nally very broadly notched with white ; upper tail-coverts uniform 

 bay ; tail dull bay-coloiu", baiTcd with dusky ])rown, these bars 

 nearly obsolete on the centre feathers, but numbering eight on the 

 outer ones ; lores whitish, the feathers blackish at tip, the shafts 

 produced into hair-Hke_ bristles ; feathers over the eye dull white, 

 with central spots of bay, forming a tolerably defined eyebrow ; car- 

 coverts whitish, washed and barred with bay, the hinderraost tipped 

 with black and merging into the ruff, which is composed of whitish 

 feathers streaked and broadly tip[)ed with black, before which is a 

 subterminal shade of rufous ; the sides of the neck buffj' white, 

 mottled with bay ; chin white ; gular feathers of the ruff whitisli, the 

 centre ones very broadly streaked with black, the lateral ones nar- 

 rowly barred with bay, with a few central streaks of black ; fore neck 

 and centre of the body white, with the exception of a few nearly ob- 

 solete cross bars of bay, the latter colour, however, prevailing on the 

 sides of the body, where the feathers are washed with fulvous and 

 barred with white, the flanks broadly barred with the latter, most 

 of the feathers on the sides being distinctly streaked with black ; 

 leg-feathers white, streaked with bay on the tarsus, the tibial 

 plumes yellowish, the toes plumed ; under wing-coverts yellowish 

 white, with a few brown spots near the outer edge of the wing, 

 which is pure white, the lower series ashy brown, yellowish at base, 

 resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are light brown, 

 with j'ellowish buff bars. Total length 10 inches, wing 0-8, tail 3-6, 

 tarsus 1"55. 



Geet phase. Nestlmrf. General colour of the adult bird, but more 

 fluffy, the feathers of the head and hind neck barred with dull 

 white, those of the latter also slightly barred with yellowish btiff ; 

 the entire under surface dull white, with distinct cross bars of dusky 

 brown, becoming obsolete on the abdomen. 



Adult. Above greyish brown, with indistinct vermieulations of 

 darker brown, some of the feathers with pale bars of yellowish buff", 

 and all having distinct mesial shaft-lines of black, the feathers of 

 the head and hind neck with distinct lateral bars of black ; ear- 

 tufts buff or white on the inner web, narrowly barred with black, 

 more broadly on the outer webs, which are also spotted or notched 

 with sandy buff towards the tips ; on the occiput a few feathers of 

 lighter grey, more distinct on the nape, where a faint bar is visible, 



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