32 G. MARTORELLI, [12] 



centralibus cinerascentihus conspicue albo terminatisi loris et 

 genis albicantihiis : torpore suhtiis sordide albo, collo inferiore 

 et pectore summo cinerascentihus^ hypocondriis vix brunneo fa- 

 sciatis: subalaribas et axillaribns albis brunneo transf asciatisi 

 rostro brunneo mandibula ad basin rufescente: poedibus satu- 

 rate plunibeis^ iride nigra. 



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Adult in wiuter. 



" Crown, sides of the head neck ali round, and the eu- 

 tire upper surface dull stone-grey, obscurely mottled with 

 brown, and darker on the back and mantle, where each 

 feather has a broad centrai mark of blackish brown : quills 

 dark elove brown, with white shafts and freckled with white on 

 their inner webs : the secondaries and their coverts tipped with 

 white; tail-feathers blackish brown terminally edged with white, 

 and with broken bars of the same on the inner web and to- 

 wards the base; rurap and upper tail coverts white, conspi- 

 cuously barred with blackish brown ; a broad streak from the 

 base of the upper mandible to the eyebrows, the chin, and fore 

 part of troat pure white; fore neck and breast pale cinnamon 

 brown, obscurely mottled; abdoraen and under tail-coverts ful- 

 vous white, the sides of the body shaded with stone-grey and 

 many of the feathers, particularly on the flanks, more or less 

 crossed with arrow-head markings of dark brown; lining and 

 axillary plumes white, the former with horse-shoe markings, 

 and the latter with broad transverse bars of cinnamon-brown. 



Toung. 



" Crown of the head and siues of the face dusky brown, 

 mottled with yellowish brown; throat and a streak from the 

 base of the upper mandible extending beyond the eyes, white; 

 neck ali round, brownish grey spotted with dark brown on 



