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d'. Chin and throat uniform buff, or with 

 a few small black sp )ts ; no white and 

 black superciliary stripe ; chest butt', 



transversely barred with black decoratus J , p. 21. 



B. Belly not black. 



c. Tarsus iinilbrm, not barred with black or 



brown ; under tail-coverts uniform *. 

 e . Upper surface of shaft of tirst primary 

 white. 

 a" . Upjier and under parts spotted with 

 white. 

 a'". Chin, throat, and superciliary 



stripe slate-grey varieyatus cJ, p. 22. 



b'". Chin, throat, and superciliary 



stripe pale buff varieyatus $ , p. 22. 



b". Upper and under parts not spotted 

 with white. 

 c'" . Throat yellow, bi>iected for about 

 half its length by a black bfir, 

 which surrounds the gape, but is 

 interrupted on the middle of the 

 forehead by a whitish patch ; 



chest and breast uuiform coronatus c?, p. 2-3. 



d'" . Throat yellow, no black bar ; 



chest and breast barred with black, coronatus J , p. 23. 

 f . Upper surface of shaft of first primary 

 dark or dusky, 

 c". Under tail-coverts dark chestnut. 

 e'" . Tliroat and superciliary stripe 

 pale butt-yellow, a black band 

 across the neck and from the gape 

 to the eye ; lower breast and 



belly uniform deep chestnut .... gutturalis cJ , p. 25. 

 f". Throat pale yellowish butf, no 

 marked superciliary stripe, no 

 black band across the throat ; that 

 from the gape to the eye brownish; 

 lower breast and belly chestnut, 



barred with black yutturalis $ , p. 25. 



d". Under tail-coverts butt'. 



g"'. A broad black band surrounds 

 the gape ; lower breast and belly 



barred with black ; back uniform, personatus c?, p. 26. 

 h'". No black band round the gape ; 

 lower breast, belly, and back 

 barred with black personatus 5 , p. 26. 



d. Tarsus uniform or barred ; under tail- 



coverts closely barred with black. 

 g'. A pectoral zone. 



e". Throat spotted with black; chest 

 above zone narrowly barred with 

 black ; zone of four bars, butf, red- 

 dish brown, buff', and black ; wing- 



* The female of P. corotiafiis has sometimes a bar or two of black, wide 

 ap<>rt, on the under tail-coverts. 



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