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coloured like the back, and spotted iu the same manner, the outer 

 median and the greater coverts with well-pronounced ovate spots of 

 white; primary-coverts uniform ashy brown; quills ashy brown, 

 rather darker than the back, excepting near the base of outer web 

 of primaries, which is clear :ishy, all of them externally chequered 

 with white spots or notches, the latter much larger on the inner 

 web, and especially on the secondaries, where the notches sometimes 

 nearly reach across the feather and form a bar ; tail blackish, darker 

 even tlian the Avings, and crossed with seven rows of white spots, 

 larger and taking the form of bars on the two centre ones and on 

 the inner webs of the others, but never reaching to the shaft of the 

 feather or forming a complete band ; feathers in front of and over 

 the eye white, forming a tolerably distinct eyebrow, the lores ter- 

 minating in black bristles ; ear-coverts ashy grey, with broad streaks 

 of ochraceous ; chin and lower throat pure white, extending back- 

 wards under the ear-coverts, and separated from each other by a 

 blackish grey band ; rest of under surface white, streaked with ashy 

 grey, some of the stripes on the abdomen blackish ; the sides of the 

 body and the upper breast greyish brown, the latter spotted irregu- 

 larly with white ; thighs and leg-feathers white on the inner sur- 

 face, and strongly mottled with ashy brown ; under tail-coverts 

 pure white, with distinct central streaks of black; under wing- 

 coverts yellowish, the outermost pure white, especially round the 

 bend of the wing, these last strongly marked with dark brown ; the 

 greater series yellowish at base, ashy brown at tip, thus resembling 

 the inner lining of the quills, which have the inner webs notched 

 with white, inclining to yellow near the base of the feathers ; iris 

 chrome-yellow. Total length 7-5 inches, wing 4, tail 3-2, tarsus 

 0-85. (Peru: Mus. Salvin & Godman.) 



Female {?). Above ochi-aceous brown, the back varied with more 

 or less concealed star-like spots of white, rather larger on the sca- 

 pulars, which have bars of white, the outermost with large ovate 

 spots of the same ; wing-coverts coloured like the back, with the 

 same tiny spots of white, the median and some of the greater coverts 

 with large oval Avhite spots, smaller on the greater coverts, which 

 are externally washed with rufous, the outer ones blackish ; primary- 

 coverts brown, washed with rufous and obscurely barred with dull 

 ochraceous ; quills dark brown, banded with pale rufous, the bars 

 inclining to white on their outer webs, and producing a chequered 

 appearance, especially on the secondaries, where the white spots are 

 more distinct, the innermost barred with white nearly across the 

 feather, rufous only in the middle of the band ; upper tail-coverts 

 rather more sandy rufous than the back, distinctly spotted with 

 white; tail dark brown, crossed with eight bars of white, including 

 the terminal one, which is very narrow, the bars as a rule not 

 meeting across the shaft, but doing this in many cases, the inter- 

 spaces washed with rufous ; head ochraceous brown, a little duller 

 than the back, streaked with white, with a few spots of the same, 

 some of the streaks dilated into spots, sometimes rufous, sometimes 

 white ; round the neck an indistinct collar of white, here and there 



