120 liUBONID-E. 



Nestlinij. Above brown, the nestling plumes tipped with white, the 

 hinder neck barred across vnth. sandy brown ; the scapulars with 

 distinct white spots on the outer webs, and the spurious quills 

 distinctly notched with white even at this early age ; wings and 

 tail marked much as in the adult, but more tinged with sandy 

 brown ; feathers of the face dull white, very distinctly barred with 

 dusky broAvn, as also the underparts, which are white, barred with 

 brown, wider and broader on the flanks and abdomen. 



Adult. General colour above gi'cy, slightly browner on the head, 

 the centres to the feathers verj' distinctly black, causing a streaked 

 appearance, broader on the crown, the transverse vermiculations very 

 coarse and distinct ; scapulars externally white, tipped with black ; 

 forehead and lores greyish white, with black tips to the feathers, those 

 round the eye whitish, mesially streaked with black, extending in 

 an indistinct line on the sides of the crown to the ear-coverts, which 

 are very plainly notched with white on the inner web, the hind neck 

 mottled with fulvous, forming a tolerably distinct collar, the only 

 one traceable on the upper surface ; wing- coverts grey, Uke the back, 

 and mottled in the same manner, the black streaks being broader 

 and occupying the entire centre of the greater coverts, which are 

 largely spotted with white at the tip of the outer web, the spurious 

 quills externally notched with buffy white ; primary-coverts dark 

 brown, barred with whitish buft'; quiUs dark brown, barred with 

 fulvous on the inner web and also on the outer webs, which are fur- 

 ther varied with greyish vermiculations on the exterior margin, the 

 light bars inclining to white on the primaries, the inner secondaries 

 very distinctly grey like the back, and mesially streaked in the same 

 manner ; tail grey, darker brown in the centre of the feathers, each 

 of which is crossed with seven bars of pale fulvous brown, inclining 

 to white on the outer webs of the external feathers ; sides of face 

 dull greyish white, barred with black and distinctly tipped with the 

 same, the ruff greyish white, slightly tinged with fulvous, and very 

 finely barred with wavj- lines of black, the stiff gular feathers broadly 

 streaked with black, and distinctly barred with narrow lines of the 

 same ; rest of under surface of body white, plainly though narrowly 

 barred with zigzag Hnes of black, the chest very broadly streaked 

 vnih black, these streaks becoming much narrower on the abdomen 

 and flanks ; the centre of the body white, as also the under tail- 

 coverts, the latter having only a few black cross markings near the 

 tip ; legs densely clothed with feathers, the tibia sandy brown, 

 barred with blackish, the tarsus white but similarly barred : under 

 vring-coverts yellowish, the edge of the wing and the adjacent feathers 

 washed with sandy and barred with dark brown, the greater series 

 ashy brown, resembling the inner lining of the quiUs, which are 

 ashy brown below, notched with yellowish on the outer and barred 

 with the same on the inner web ; bill greenish horn-colour, the tip 

 yellowish ; iris yellow. Total length 9 inches, wing 0-3, tail 3-6, 

 tarsus 1"35. 



Obs. This is a small race of S. lennicotti ; but, as far as can be 

 determined, it has only a grey phase and no brown one. Its mea- 



