228 HUHONID.i;. 



NeslUiKj. Covered with dusky brown down, the filaments of whieh 

 are ashy white at their tips, causing a general hoary appearance ; 

 the sprouting plumes fulvous, with brown cross bai-s ; quills 

 ashy grey, barred and vermiculated with dark brown ; the secon- 

 daries dark brown, slightly mottled with fulvous brown ; tail 

 fulvous, with whitish tip and crossed with dark brown bars ; 

 feathers of under surface yellowish buff, with narrow cross bars 

 of dark brown. 



Aduh female. Above blackish brown, mottled all over with 

 orange-buff, the bases of the feathers being generally of this 

 colour ; all the dorsal plumes likewise silvered with white, over 

 which vermiculations of dark brown arc more or less distributed ; 

 wing-coverts coloured like the back, the greater series as well as the 

 scapulars having a largo oval spot of wliite on the outer web ; edge 

 of the wing white ; primary-coverts blackish brown, inclining to 

 orange-buff near the base of the outermost feathers ; quills greyish 

 brown, with hoary tips, and barred with darker brown, the bands 

 much broiider on the primaries, which are more or less inclining to 

 orange-buff on the interspaces, especially bright near the base ; the 

 Becondaries more silvery grey, mottled with dark brown vermicula- 

 tions, the darker brown bars more obsolete and dissolved on the 

 innermost ; upper tail-coverts orange-buff, dark brown in the centre 

 and vermiculated with the same towards the tips ; tail-feathers 

 greyish or fvdvous brown, inclining to orange -buff near the base, and 

 crossed by seven bands of darker brown, more or less decomposed 

 and vermiculated towards the tip, the outer feathers more dusky and 

 having about ten narrow bands of dark brown ; head pale orange- 

 buff, with blackish brown longitudinal centres to the feathers, many 

 of which are whitish on their margins and vermiculated with dusky 

 brown lines, the plumes on the sides of the neck much whiter, and 

 the cross lines almost obsolete ; frontal feathers greyish white, very 

 minutely fi-eckled with brown bars ; ear-tufts 1-G5 inch long, 

 blackish, inclining to orange-buff on the outer web and to white on 

 the inner one ; face dusky white, obscured Avith hair-like lines of 

 black ; feathers round the eye blackish ; ear-coverts yellowish, with 

 very faint vermiculations of dusky brown ; facial ruff white at base, 

 all the feathers tipped with black, forming a frill ; chin whitish ; 

 throat-feathers long and stiff, in continuation of the ruff, spotted 

 and centred with dark brown ; rest of under surface of body orange- 

 buff, the flanks and leg-feathers entirely of this colour ; the breast- 

 feathers for the most part white, with a broad centre of dark brown, 

 and having a few smaller frecklings of brown on either web ; under 

 wing-coverts white, washed with orange-buff, a few of the feathers 

 narrowly lined with brown, the greater series white at base and 

 broadly brown at tip, forming a bar across the wing and resembling 

 the inner lining of the quills, which are ashy brown barred with 

 darker brown, the interspaces more or less yellowish and the bases 

 entirely orange-buff ; bill dusky horn-colour ; claws horn-colour ; 

 iris orange-yellow. Total length 1.3'5 inches, wing 11'6, tail 6, 

 tarsus 1-6. 



