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The dorsal aspect may be thus described: Crown of the head 
dark hair-brown, with somewhat lighter edges and darker shafts to 
each feather. Moustache black. Over the eyes there is an 
indication of a lighter stripe, and the ear-coverts and the nape are 
lighter coloured than the parts around. A dark band can be traced 
from the hinder-angle of the orbits backward to below the lighter 
part of the nape. Neck feathers narrowly edged with cream-colour. 
Mantle and upper part of the scapularies dark hair-brown with 
black shafts. Lower part of scapularies dark hair-brown, each 
feather being diversified with transverse rows of cream-coloured 
spots, which increase in number and tend more and more to 
become confluent, especially at the outer half of each feather, as 
they extend backwards from the head. These rows of spots range 
about half an inch apart, and they therefore increase in number 
with the length of each feather up to a maximum of six rows ; but 
the cream-colour is quite subordinate to the darker tint. Wing 
coverts, tertiaries, secondaries, and bastard wing, dark hair-brown, 
diversified with cream-coloured spots and edges in much the same 
way, and exhibiting a decided tendency to assume a banded 
pattern. Primaries dark hair-brown, paler towards the margin, 
and flecked with small cream-coloured spots. On the inner webs 
the cream-colour occupies the whole of the inner margin and 
extends thence inward towards the shaft in gradually narrowing 
bands, which interdigitate with the spurs of the darker shade. 
The hair-brown tint predominates also on the lower part of the 
back, and on the upper tail-coverts, and also on the tail, which is 
subordinately spotted, barred, and edged with cream-colour of the 
same shade as prevails on other parts of the body. 
