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white ; the primaries darker than the secondaries, and crossed with 

 six bands of light ochre, deeper and more obscured with brown 

 towards the tip ; the secondaries paler brown, and crossed with four 

 or five bands of oehraceous brown; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 coloured like the back, but barred rather plainly with oehraceous 

 buff; tail dark brown, with a pale whitish tip, and crossed Avith 

 seven pale brown bauds, inclining to oehraceous near the base, these 

 including the subterminal light brown bar, the bands on the inner 

 web broader and paler oehraceous ; lores and feathers over the fore 

 part of eye white, all those round the eye dark brown ; the ear- 

 coverts whitish, obscured with narrow brown bars ; feathers of the 

 ruff brown, minutely banded with oehraceous, the bars much broader 

 on the gular portion of the ruff ; chin whitish ; rest of under sur- 

 face of body oehraceous buff, with broad bauds of fawn-brown and 

 white, most of these bands having a conterminous line of blackish 

 brown above and below ; leg-feathers fulvous, with a few narrow 

 zigzag hues of brown ; under tail-coverts fulvous, very narrowly 

 barred with brown ; under wing-coverts deep oehraceous, with a 

 few narrow streaks of dark brown near the outer margin of the 

 wing, the outer coverts of the lower series dark brown at tip, thus 

 resembling the inner lining of the wing, which is dark brown, with 

 oehraceous bands on the inner web, especially of the secondaries. 



Adult. Above chocolate-brown, regularly banded across with dull 

 fulvous, these bars dilating in the centre into a diamond-shaped 

 spot, indistinct on the dorsal feathers, more plainly developed on the 

 scapulars, and very distinct on the head, hind neck, and wdg, where 

 the bars are broader and whiter ; crown of the head rather darker 

 than the back, and the bars somewhat smaller ; scapulars externally 

 white, narrowly barred with brown, forming a conspicuous longitu- 

 dinal shoulder-patch ; vnng-coverts brown like the back, but rather 

 more uniform, the greater and median series with narrow fulvous 

 bars and vermiculations, and scantily marked with diamond-shaped 

 spots of white like the back ; quills brown, fulvous at tip, and 

 distinctly banded with oehraceous brown, inclining to white on the 

 outer web, the secondaries barred with oehraceous brown and fulvous 

 much more narrowly than the primaries ; upper tail-coverts brown 

 like the back, but distinctly barred with white ; tail brown, tipped 

 with whitish, and crossed with six bands of paler brown, not count- 

 ing the pale subterminal shade of brown which precedes the whitish 

 tip, but which can scarcely be called a band; facial aspect dull 

 brown, with narrow fulvous shaft-streaks, and circularly barred 

 with dusky whitish ; lores and feathers over the eye more distinctly 

 white, with blackish shaft-stripes and a few narrow bars of brown ; 

 ruff composed of brown feathers, slightly barred with whitish, the 

 plumes on the lower portion yellowish white, with narrow brown 

 bars ; chin duU white, barred across with brown ; rest of under 

 surface white, barred narrowly with brown in regular transverse 

 bands, and varied with rufesceut tips to the feathers, the white bars 

 always the broadest and most distinct ; leg-feathers fulvous, with 

 narrow zigzag bars of brown ; under tail-coverts white, with nar- 



