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pale brown, some of the feathers with a terminal triangular spot of 

 buff, the lower upper tail-coverts entirely buffy white ; tail almost 

 uniform brown, slightly inclining to ashy grey on the middle of the 

 centre feathers, the inner webs somewhat inclining to bronzy brown, 

 the tips fulvescent, the outer feathers dimly barred on inner web 

 with blackish brown ; the lower surface of both quills and tail ashy 

 brown, the latter indistinctly mottled; head and neck light brown, 

 the hinder neck pale straw-colour, a few tips of the same colour 

 being visible on the upper interscapulary plumes ; cheeks and entire 

 under surface of bodj'^ pale brown, lighter and more fulvescent on 

 the under tail-coverts, a few of the chest-feathers rather darker 

 brown, with fulvous brown centres ; under wing-coverts brown, 

 rather darker than breast, a few with irregular whitish tips, the 

 lowest series darker and more ashy brown, uniform with the wing- 

 lining ; cere yellow ; bill bluish hom-colour, lighter near base ; feet 

 yellow ; iris hazel. Total length 24-5 inches, culmen 1-75, wing 

 19, tail 9'25, tarsus 3"45. {Dantzig, mus. H. E. Dresser.) 



Adult female. Larger than the male. Total length 26 inches, 

 wing 19-7o, tail 10, tarsus 3-0. (Bnmswicl; miis. H. E. D.) 



Yomig male. Above brown, paler on the head, the feathers of the 

 crown tipped wdth fulvous, the plumes of the hind neck with a 

 longitudinal fulvous streak towards the tip, giving a distinctly 

 lanceolate appearance, the nape-feathers entirely ochraceous buff, 

 forming a patch ; wing-coverts brown like bade, the outer median 

 and greater series longitudinally streaked with white, forming a 

 larger and more rounded spot on the greater and primary coverts ; 

 quills blackish, shaded externally with brown, the innermost secon- 

 daries much paler brown, with a large oval spot of white at the tip, 

 as on the coverts, the outer secondaries slightly tipped with whity 

 brown, inner lining of wings uniform ashy brown, the secondaries 

 paler, with slight remains of ashy whitish cross bars on inner web ; 

 scapulars with a terminal whitish shaft-streak, larger on the lowest 

 ones but less distinct, because over-shaded Avith brown ; upper tail- 

 coverts pale brown, whitish on outer webs, which are more or less 

 mottled with brownish ; tail perfectly uniform dark brown, tipped 

 with whitish, but having no traces of barring above, and only the 

 faintest appearance of ashy bars towards the tips of the feathers 

 below ; sides of face and throat pale buffy brown ; rest of under 

 surface of body from the lower throat pale brown, with whitish 

 centres to the feathers, larger and forming a cluster down the mid- 

 dle of the breast, which preserves a lighter appearance, the stripes 

 on the lower throat and flanks more linear and deeper ochraceous, 

 whitish and forming a triangular apical spot on the thigh-feathers ; 

 tarsal feathers pale brown ; under tail-coverts buffy white ; under 

 wing-coverts pale brown, with a few whitish shaft-streaks on the 

 outermost small coverts, the lower series ashy brown, like the lining 

 of the wings, the outer ones slightly whitish at tips and bases, the 

 first primaries very faintly mottled with whitish at base. Total 

 length 25 inches, wing 18-5, tail 9-5, tarsus 3-4. 



Hab. Central Europe, extending into Northern Germany and 



