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inner quills blackish brown ; upper tail-coverts barred black 

 and rufous ; tail rufous^ crossed by fine bars of black, these 

 bars being rather narrower than the rufous interspaces ; 

 shafts reddish or purplish brown; lores, forehead, crown and 

 occiput, sides of the face, and upper neck brownish bu^ff, the 

 feathers having dark-brown central stripes ; below the eye 

 a patch of crimson ; hind neck and lower side of the neck 

 more rufous than the head, the feathers having similar cen- 

 tral stripes ; chin and throat buff, each feather centred with 

 a very dark brown stripe ; fore neck and chest rufous ; entire 

 under surface of the body dark brown, the flanks and thighs 

 barred with rufous ; under tail-coverts dull rufous, with 

 either an interraarginal blackish line or transverse and other 

 varied blackish markings ; under wing-coverts rufous, varied 

 with black. Total length 9"0 inches, culmen 1"12, wing 5'1, 

 tail 2'8, tarsus 0"9 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0'7, 

 outer posterior 0'7, inner anterior 0'55, inner posterior 0"23. 

 Male, ap'parenthj nut fully adult (Swinhoe's type). Entire 

 back, scapularies, and rump blackish brown, narrowly barred 

 with rufous ; wing-coverts, also the bastard wing and pri- 

 mary-coverts, barred blackish brown and rufous, the latter 

 barring broader on these parts than on the back ; quills 

 rufous, barred across both webs with black ; shafts reddish, 

 those of the inner secondaries more dusky brown ; upper 

 tail-coverts clearly barred rufous and black, the width of 

 barring about equal ; tail rufous, barred with black, the 

 latter about half the width of the intervening rufous space ; 

 shafts reddish brown ; nasal plumes, also the entire head, 

 neck, chin, and throat, light buffy brown, almost all the 

 feathers having a dusky brown central stripe, these striations 

 being strongly marked on the chin and throat ; feathers 

 under the eye tipped with crimson; under surface of the 

 body dusky brown, brighter rufous on the chest ; the fea- 

 thers of the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts, also a few 

 on the abdomen, rufous, barred with blackish brown ; under 

 wing-coverts uniform rufous ; axillaries barred rufous and 

 black : " bill bluish grey, with more or less greenish yellow 

 on the lower mandible ; iris reddish brown ; legs and claws 



