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almost uniform, excepting a division of white feathers down the centre 

 which are streaked with black ; rest of under surface white, thickly- 

 streaked with black, the sides of the body rufous ; leg-feathers 

 ochraceous brown, inclining to fulvous on the inner face ; under wing- 

 coverts white, the innermost yellowish, with a patch of black near 

 the outer margin, the greater series yellowish at base, blackish at 

 tips, thus resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are greyish 

 brown, plainly spotted with yellowish on the inner web, more largely 

 near the base. 



Ohs. Erom the uniform grey-headed plumage above described the 

 present sjiecies moults into its second stage, as is evidenced by a 

 specimen in Mr. H. S. Le Strange's collection. The crown in this 

 bird is becoming dark brown like the back, the shafts indicated by 

 rufous lines widening out in an oval form and crossed with other 

 bars of rufous. This specimen also shows some mottlings on the 

 back, thus approaching the Vancouver- Island specimen next to be 

 described, and which I take to be in the second plumage. 



Adult male (in second plumage). Above brown with somewhat of 

 a rufous olive tinge, the back varied with half-concealed arrow- 

 shaped spots of rufous ochre, larger on the scapulars and more oval 

 in shape, inclining to white on the outer margin ; the hind neck also 

 strongly mottled with rnfous ochre, forming a kind of irregular coUar, 

 above which is a more clearly defined one of white, slightly varied 

 with blackish and relieved by two patches of black on either side of 

 the hind neck ; head rather darker brown than the back, covered 

 with minute spots of rufous ochre, larger and rather more elongated 

 on the forehead ; wing-coverts darker brown than the back and 

 spotted in the same way with rufous ochre, taking the form of 

 notches or bands on the gi-eater series, some of the outermost of 

 which are tipped with white, which forms a kind of longitudinal band 

 down the wing ; quills deep sepia-brown, indistinctly banded with 

 blackish, externally spotted with rufous ochre, the secondaries 

 browner, spotted and indistinctly barred across with ochraceous buff; 

 upper tail-coverts bi'own, longitudinally streaked near the base with 

 white and spotted or barred near the tip with ochraceous white ; 

 tail blackish with lighter brown bars inclining to white spots on 

 either extremity, but larger always on the inner web, the tail thus 

 appearing to have five bands without counting the terminal white 

 spot on the inner web of each feather ; lores and an indistinct eye- 

 brow duskj- white, the former obscured by blackish bristles ; sides of 

 face dark brown, minutely spotted with ochraceous ; chin and cheeks 

 white, extending in a broad patch below the ear-coverts, crossed by 

 a distinct band of brown, mottled with ochre and rufous and extend- 

 ing on to the sides of the neck ; fore neck conspicuously white ; rest 

 of under surface pure white, narrowly but very distinctly streaked 

 with black, disappearing on the under tail-coverts ; the sides of the 

 upper breast mottled with ochraceous spots, the flanks also varied 

 with dark brown ; leg-feathers white, slightly streaked with dark 

 brown ; under wing-coverts white, streaked near outer margin with 

 blackish, the greater series whitish at base, ashy brown at tip, thus 



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