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edged with whitish and tinged with brown on the mantle and 

 scapulars ; sides of the rump and upper tail-coverts whitish ; 

 throat white, t'ore-neck brownish ashy, passing gradually into 

 cinereous on the breast, whitish on the abdomen ; vent and iinder 

 tail-coverts white ; feathers of the tlanks brown, rufous towards the 

 tips with pale edgings ; quills grey, dusky towards the tips, and 

 gradually becoming darker towards the secondaries ; tertials brownish 

 grey ; tail grey, white-tipped : " bill yellow ; irides brown ; legs 

 orange" (Jerdoti). Total length 27 inches, wing 17, tail (3, bill 2, 

 tarsus 2 "70. 



Yowij/. Forehead brownish white, a little tinged with rusty ; a 

 dusky line through the lores to the eye ; whole crown, occiput, and 

 nape sooty or dusky black ; no trace of either the two distinct 

 black head-bars or the conspicuous white neck-streaks ; back of 

 neck wood-brown, sides and front of the lower part of the neck pale 

 dusky greyish, mottled with whitish ; most of the feathers of the 

 breast and abdomen have a ])ale rusty tinge towards the tips ; the 

 conspicuous dark banding of the flanks of the adults is almost 

 entirely wanting ; tail somewhat browner than in the adult. 



Yoiiitg in down. Pale yellowish, top of the head and upper parts 

 pale brown. 



