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ochraceous, all the feathers centred and tipped with dark brown ; 

 lores and forehead whitish ; ear-coverts entirely dark brown, con- 

 trasting strongly with the light-coloured head and neck; under 

 surface of body whitish, with a few narrow central streaks of brown, 

 rather broader on the chest, which is washed with golden buif. 



AdiiU. General colour above rather pale or earthy brown, the hind 

 neck washed with fawn-colour; the head rather darker than the 

 back, and slightly streaked with fulvous ; scapulars bromi like the 

 back, broadly barred with white, occupying the greater part of the 

 outer web, and showing very conspicuously ; wing-coverts brown, 

 the greater and median series with some distinct white oval spots ; 

 primary-coverts dark brown, with faint indications of lighter brown 

 bars ; quiUs dark brown, barred across with lighter brown, the 

 primaries externally washed with pale rufous, the light bars fading 

 into a bufly white notch on the outer web of the outermost prima- 

 ries ; lower back and rump more rufous than the rest of the upper 

 surface, the feathers having fawn-coloured bases ; tail brown, the 

 centre feathers uniform, the rest barred with fulvous on the inner 

 web, these bars becoming gradually more distinct towards the outer 

 feather, the last one being barred with fulvous on the inner web, 

 and spotted with the same on the outer one ; lores and frontal plumes 

 whitish, with black shaft-lines; sides of the head fulvous, nar- 

 rowly streaked with brown, and forming a tolerably distinct eye- 

 brow ; ear-coverts dark brown, contrasting with the rest of the 

 head ; cheeks whitish, as also the feathers behind the ear-coverts, 

 these latter streaked with brown ; chin whitish ; rest of under sur- 

 face white, the breast yellowish, broadly streaked with rufous brown, 

 the abdominal feathers almost eutii'cly white, mesially streaked with 

 brown and broadly tipped with pale fawn-colour ; the under tail- 

 coverts whitish, narrowly margined with pale fawn-colour ; leg- 

 feathers fawn-colour, whitish on the inner aspect; under wing- 

 coverts ochraceous fawn, with scarcely any indications of brown 

 markings beyond an occasional streak near the outside margin of 

 the wing, the greater series brown, irregularly barred with fulvous, 

 resembling the inner lining of the wing, which is brown, with large 

 bars of fulvous on the inner web ; " bill slate-coloured, darker at 

 tip ; iris dark brown " (Elsei/, MS.). Total length 13-5 inches, wing 

 8*6, taU 5-5, tarsus 1'65. 



Obs. Although closely allied to N. hoohool; this is a much smaller and 

 more rufous species, and differs especially in its fawn-coloured under 

 parts and under wing-coverts, the latter being uniform. In some of 

 the browner-looking examples, there are some markings or stripes 

 of brown upon these under wing-coverts, but never so thickly distri- 

 buted as in the true N. boohool: The difference in size may best be 

 estimated by a comparison of two males, the specimens described not 

 having the sexes detennined. 



Total 



length. Wiug. Tail. Tarsus, 

 in. in. in. in. 



a. S ad. Percy Iskud 10 9-3 6-4 l-6o 



h. (S ad. N.W. Australia i^Elsey) V6 8-8 54 1-45 



