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rich fawn-colour, paler ou the tarsal feathers and under wing-coverts, 

 the breast-feathers mesially streaked with blackish shaft-stripes. 



Young. The nestling described is so advanced in plumage as to 

 show nearly all the characteristics of the fiilly grown young bird. 

 Some points, however, are not fully developed, and require a short 

 description of the second stage. General colour brown, with black 

 shaft-stripes and faint fulvous-brown margins to the feathers, the 

 head and neck fawn-colour like the underparts, with distinct blackish 

 shaft-stripes, as also the under wing-coverts and axillaries ; quills 

 dark brown, broadly tipped with huffy white, and mottled with ashy 

 grey externally towards the tips, crossed with distinct bars of darker 

 brown, the innermost secondaries uniform brown like the back ; tail 

 ashy brown, mottled Avith rufous and shaded with the same towards 

 the tips, with indications of dark brown spots near the shafts of the 

 centre feathers, inclining to bars on the inner webs of the others, 

 but with no appearance of a sub terminal band. 



Adult female. Above deep brown, the feathers white at base, 

 some of them paler-margined, the eyebrow and sides of neck 

 streaked with white ; sides of face white, the cheeks distinctly 

 streaked with brown, the ear-coverts more narrowly, the hinder 

 margin of the latter inclining to rufous ; under surface of body 

 white, with distinct blackish brown shaft-stripes of unequal breadth, 

 the flanks irregularly barred and marked with arrow-head markings 

 of dark brown ; leg-feathers more or less pale brown, varied with 

 dark brown, and irregularly spotted with white ; under wing-coverts 

 white, streaked with black, the lower ones entirely black, with white 

 tips ; axillaries white, barred and streaked with blackish, the re- 

 mains apparently of a uniform blackish feather ; quills deep brown, 

 much mottled with white on inner web ; tail ashy brown, more or 

 less inclining to grey, with five or six indistinct bars of brown near 

 the base, and a broad subterminal band of dark brown, the tips of 

 the feathers fulvous ; cere and gape dingy yellow, bluish about 

 nostrils ; bill horn-black, bluish grey at base ; feet whitish brown, 

 tinged with yellow, claws black ; iris yeUow. Total length 26 inches, 

 culmen 2*5, wing 21, tail 11-5, tarsus 4. 



Adult male. Rather smaller than the female. Total length 29 

 inches, wing 19*6, tail 11, tarsus 3*5. 



Ilab. All the countries of Southern Europe, on both sides of the 

 Mediterranean ; the entire Indian peninsula. 



u. Juv. sk. Italy. Purchased. 



b. Juv. st. Tangier. E. Warren, Esq. [P.]. 



c, d. PuU. St. Tunis. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.l. 

 e. 2 ad. sk. Timis. li. Fraser, Esq. [C.J. 

 /. 2 ad. St. Tunis. Sir T. Reade [P!]. 



ff. Ad. St. India. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Juv. St. India. Purchased. 



{. Juv. sk. India. Purchased. 



/. c? imm. sk. Rajkote, Kattiawar, Capt. J. Hayes Lloyd fP.l. 



Jan. 1, 1871. 



k. Juv. sk. Madras. Dr. Jerdon [P.]. 



/. Juv. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



