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Adah. Head greyisli, witli minute white dots, e;ich dot relieved 

 bj' a black terminal line ; round the hind neck an ill-defined collar 

 formed of white spots mottled with l>]ack markings, the usual black 

 patches on each side of the hind neck well developed ; back clear 

 umber-brown, uniform with the exception of a few whitish spots on 

 the outer web of the scapulars ; the upper tail-coverts with a few 

 concealed ochraceous spots, often absent ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 except the outermost which are bhickish, on the least ones a few 

 spots of rufous ochre, larger and whiter on the greater series ; pri- 

 mary-coverts blackish, quills blackish, with indications of obsolete 

 brown bars, which show a snudl ochraceous spot on the external web 

 of the primaries, larger and more distinct on the secondaries, which 

 are browner and resemble the back; tuil blackish, crossed with 

 five rows of white spots, inclining to bars or notches on the inner 

 web, and nearly obsolete on the tips of the feathers ; frontal plumes, 

 lores, and a narrow eyebrow white, the lores obscured by black 

 bristles ; ear-coverts obscurely barred with white and dusky black ; 

 sides of crown and sides of neck very thickly dotted with wliite ; 

 cheeks white, extending backwards in a patch below the ear-coverts ; 

 chin and fore neck white, separated by a faintly indicated band of dull 

 brown, washed with rufous ; rest of under suiface white, with broad 

 longitudinal streaks of rufous brown, inclining to dark brown on the 

 abdomen ; the sides of the breast entirely rufous brown, mottled -nath 

 large spots of while ; leg-feathers dusky, slightly mottled with white, 

 especially on the inner face of the thighs ; under wing-coverts yel- 

 lowish, with a few black markings near the outer edge of the wing, 

 the greater series yellowish at base, blackish at tip, thus resembling 

 the inner lining of the wing, all the inner webs being notched with 

 yellowish and being entirely yellow near the base of the quills. 

 Total length 5-6 inches, wing 3-55, tail 2-4, tarsus 6-7. 



Yoiuuj. Head deep grey, with a few whitish streaks on the fore- 

 head ; hind neck mottled with white, forming an indistinct collar 

 with the usual black side-patches, the feathers below this collar 

 slightly inclining to rufous, but not enough to form a second collar ; 

 entire back uniform chocolate-brown, the scapulars with a few scat- 

 tered sjiots of rufous ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series 

 with a few rufous s])ots on the outer web ; primary-coverts uniformly 

 blackish, quills blackish, externally spotted with rufous, the secon- 

 daries browner like the back, but also spotted with rufous on the 

 outer web ; tail blackish, with yellowish white tips to the inner webs 

 of the feathers, which have here and there a few yellowish spots, 

 excepting the two centre ones, which have six rows of small ochra- 

 ceous spots, not counting the one at the tip ; lores and feathers round 

 the eye whitish, the former elongated into black bristles ; fore part 

 of cheeks also conspicuously white ; hinder part of ear-coverts brown ; 

 chin and a patch extending below the ear-coverts pure white, sepa- 

 rated from the L)wer throat, which is also white, by a distinct band 

 of brown ; rest of uuder surface of body white, broadly streaked with 

 blackish ; the chest and sides of the body rufous chocolate, with no 

 spots or lighter mottlings ; leg-feathers yellowish, mottled with 



