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outer web of the secondaries, and often obscured by blackish vermi- 

 culatioQs, the inner secondaries not spotted, and coloured like the 

 back ; the lower surface of the wing much paler, and broadly barred 

 with yellowish white on the inner web ; taQ rufous brown, vermi- 

 culated with blackish, the inner webs barred with yellowish white, 

 these bars about nine in number, and varj'ing very much in breadth 

 and in extent ; forehead and a very broad ej'ebrow white, slightly 

 yermiculated with brown ; the lores also whitish, tinged with rufous, 

 and terminating in black shaft-bristles ; all the feathers round the 

 eye, as well as the entire sides of the face, and extending slightly 

 on to the sides of the neck, bright bay; auricular tufts 2-G inches 

 long, brown, more or less tinged with rufous, the basal feathers 

 entii'ely white, as is also more or less of the upper web of the other 

 plumes ; cheeks and throat brownish ashy, with a small spot of 

 white at the hinder end of the former ; under surface of bod}- ashy 

 brown, everj'where vermiculated with narrow lines of darker brown ; 

 the centre of the chest and flanks more or less white, the vermicu- 

 lations nearly obsolete, the lower flanks and tibial plumes inclining 

 to orange-buif ; tarsal feathers fulvous, tinged with rufous on the 

 upper part, and coarsely vermiculated with brown bars ; under tail- 

 coverts fulvous, with slight remains of brownish vermiculations ; 

 under wing-coverts orange-buff, with slight remains of rufoiLS brown 

 mottlings near the outer edge of the wing, the greater series orange- 

 buff at base, brown at tip, resembling the inner surface of the 

 wing. Total length 20"5 inches, cidmen 1-65, wing I'S'-i, tail 8-5, 

 tarsus 1-8. 



Young male. Diflers from adult in being rather more rufescent 

 above, and much more coarsely vermiculated with blackish ; the 

 white spots on the scapulars and wing-coverts smaller and fewer in 

 number ; on the under surface the vermiculations much coarser, and 

 the white on the chest and flanks much less distinct. Total length 

 18-5 inches, wing 12-7, tail 8-5, tarsus 1'8. 



liufous phase. General colour foxy red, covered with little brown 

 vermiculations, pretty distinct but irregular on the back, much less 

 plainly indicated on the hind neck, which is consequently more 

 uniform ; head like the back, but a little darker, vermiculated in 

 the same manner ; forehead itself white, the feathers of the fore part 

 of the crown creamy white, minutely vermiculated with reddish 

 bro^vn, as also are some of the median plumes of the car-tufts, the 

 innermost plumes of the latter being pure white, the outer ones 

 reddish brown, more or less whitish on the inner web ; facial aspect 

 deep foxy rufous, the loral plumes whitish at base ; under sur- 

 face of body fulvescent, vermiculated with brown, the chest in- 

 clining to foxy red, with sparsely indicated vermiculations : leg- 

 feathers creamy buff, with slight indications of rufous bars, disap- 

 peaiing on the under tail-coverts, which are uniform creamy buff; 

 under wing-coverts deep fulvous, slightly spotted with brown, and 

 washed with rufous near the outer margin of the wing, which is 

 fulvous, the greater series fulvous, barred with brown, and resem- 

 bling the inner lining of the quills, which are brown, barred with 



