208 BUBONID-E. 



with pale ochre ; chin white, extending in a large white patch below 

 the ear-coverts on to the sides of the neck ; across the lower throat 

 a bar of plain dark brown extending on to the sides of the neck and 

 followed by a large white patch on the fore neck ; rest of under 

 surface of body ochraceous, the centre of the abdomen white, the 

 under tail-coverts brownish at tip ; the lower surface of the body 

 broadly but irregularly streaked with dull reddish brown, the sides 

 of the" upper breast and the flanks uniform reddish brown ; under 

 wing-coverts deep ochre, with a longitudinal patch of dark brown 

 near the outer edge of the wing, which is whitish round the bend, 

 the greater series yellowish white at base, blackish at tip, thus re- 

 sembling the inner lining of the wing, which is blackish, barred with 

 lighter brown towards the tip, inclining to yellowish white near the 

 base. 



Adult. Above dark brown, with a slight tinge of reddish on the 

 back, which is varied with more or less concealed bars of deep ochre, 

 each bar having a conterminous line of black above and below, the 

 outer scapulars and greater wing-coverts relieved with large spots of 

 ochre or white ; head more greyish brown, contrasting with the 

 back and covered with numerous rounded or elongated spots of 

 ochraceous white, extending on to the sides of the neck, which are 

 coloured like the head ; round the hind neck a whitish collar, here 

 and there varied with deep ochre and black, a large patch of the 

 latter being visible on each side of the hind neck ; wings coloured 

 as in foregoing J'oung specimen, excepting that the rufous bands are 

 more distinct and the external white spots are larger ; tail black, 

 with five distinct rows of white spots (not including the terminal 

 spot on the inner web), the two centre feathers with a subterminal 

 spot of white on either web ; facial features and under surface of 

 body much as in foregoing description, excepting that the stripes on 

 the lower parts are more distinct and the sides of the breast are 

 minutely spotted ■n'ith ochraceous white like the head ; under wiug- 

 coverts and bars on inner lining of wing whiter and not so rich ochre 

 as in the young bird. Total length 6 inches, wing 415, tail 2-75, 

 tarsus 0'7. 



Rufous phase. Adult. Above rufous brown, the head mottled 

 with rufous chestnut, which takes the form of broad shaft-streaks, 

 widening out here and there into large spots or lateral bars ; round 

 the hind neck encircled with an indistinct collar of rufous ochre, 

 somewhat varied with white spots and having the usual black neck- 

 patches well defined : back rufous brown, thickly mottled and barred 

 across with rutbus, most of the feathers with distinct transverse 

 bars ; wing-coverts dark brown, barred with rufous ; qxiills blackish 

 brown, barred with lighter and more rufous brown, changing to clear 

 rufous on the outer web of the primaries and thus producing a che- 

 quered appearance, the inner secondaries regularly barred with 

 rufous and black ; tail bright rufons, with indications of seven black 

 cross bands, irregular in shape and sometimes connected by a mesial 

 streak along the shaft ; feathers round the eye, forming an indistinct 

 evebrow, rich ochre ; the lores whiter, and terminating in black 



