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brown, with pale fulvous margins on the upper surface ; the breast- 

 feathers tawny brown, already showing small white spots. 



Young. Above brown, with large spots of dark brown near the 

 end of each feather, which is slightly tipped with fulvous ; the bases 

 to the feathers white ; the upper tail-coverts tipped and barred on 

 the outer web with the same ; wing-coverts blackish brown, the 

 least ones apically margined with white ; the greater series whity 

 brown, more or less entirely white on inner web, mesially streaked 

 with dark brown, widening into a spatulate apical spot ; quills dark 

 brown tipped with white, the secondaries more broadly, barred across 

 with blackish brown, very distinct underneath, where the inner webs 

 are for the most part white ; tail ashy brown, tipped with white and 

 crossed with three broad bands of darker brown, with indications of 

 ii-regular whitish lines on the interspaces ; head and neck all round 

 white, with a narrow shaft-stripe and diamond-shaped apical spot 

 of dark brown ; the ear-coverts and cheeks nearly uniform brown ; 

 under surface of body white, with broad streaks of brown on the 

 breast, becoming very narrow and linear on the flanks ; the thighs 

 narrowly barred with brown ; under wing-coverts white, with large 

 oval spots of rufous brown on the innermost, and having bars of 

 brown on the lower series. 



Mature female. Head much crested, jet-black, with conspicuous 

 white bases to the feathers, those of the nape tipped with dull ochra- 

 ceous ; rest of upper surface of body purplish brown, paler on the 

 interscapulary region ; the wing-coverts blacker, with remains of 

 white tips, which are less distinct on the scapulars, but very broad 

 on the upper tail-coverts ; quills brown, tipped with white and 

 mottled slightly on the outer web, but more on the inner, with the 

 same ; all the quiUs dark brown at base, and having a broad subter- 

 minal band of blackish brown, the primaries showing a second dark 

 brown band near the base ; the inner web of the quills below whitish, 

 showing the bands very distinctly ; tail black, narrowly tipped with 

 whitish and crossed with a very broad median band of pale whity 

 brown ; sides of face and chin blackish with a distinct greyish shade, 

 the latter showing slight tips of fulvous to the feathers ; rest of 

 under surface pale ochreous brown, with distinct but irregular trans- 

 verse lines of dark brown, the rest of the under surface with large 

 sjjots of white, rather oblong in shape, and mostly margined above 

 and below with black, changing to bars on the thighs and under 

 tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light rufous, with 

 very distinct oval spots of white. Total length 30 inches, culmen 

 2-25, wing 20-5, tail 13, tarsus 4-5. 



Adult male. Smaller than the female. Total length 28 inches, 

 wing 18-5, tail 12, tarsus 4-15. The adult bird differs from the 

 foregoing in having the chest perfectly uniform brown, with no 

 trace of cross barrings on the imder surface : the breast and lower 

 parts very largely and distinctly spotted with white ; cere, loral 

 skin, and gape bright yellow ; bill slaty plumbeous at base, bluish 

 black at tip and on culmen ; feet pale dingy yellow ; iris intense 

 yellow. 



