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freckled with brown, outer webs being pure white, narrowly bordered with dark brown, and 



having terminal black spots. Other scapulars pure white, traversed sparsely with fine irregular 



greyish-brown lines. Minor and major wing-coverts brown, with rusty margins and having a 



mottled rusty and brown aspect. Many of the major coverts with pure white terminal spots. 



White and tawny minute terminal spots on many of the other wing-coverts. Tertiaries brown, 



minutely freckled with pale grey wavy fine lines, tinged with tawny rufous in places. Some 



with white or greyish-white terminal spots. Primaries with the inner webs pale brown ; outer 



brown, marked with rusty and indented with white or tawny white. Tips of primaries (1st and 



2nd excepted) mottled with tawny rust-colour. Axillaries grey, tipped pure white. Under 



wing-coverts creamy white, mingled here and there with brown. Chin and throat-feathers white P.Z.8.TS77, 



at their roots, with tawny tips, the produced hair-like' shafts being brown, and narrow brown 



lines crossing some of the feathers. On the centre of the throat and reaching to the breast a 



patch of white feathers, each with a subterminal, irregular, brown, narrow transverse line, and in 



some, higher up the feather, a second V-shaped line. The white throat-plumes bordering the 



upper breast with a broader dark-brown or black terminal band. Separating the group of white 



throat-plumes from the upper breast is a series of brown feathers freckled with rusty, and all 



with more or less white along the basal half of the shaft. These are followed by a series of 



pectoral pure white plumes, with either black terminal margins or black margins freckled with 



pale rusty. Many are traversed with two irregular brown narrow lines. These pectoral plumes 



are succeeded by pure white abdominal feathers, traversed by two narrow V-shaped pale-brown 



or tawny-brown lines, the terminal margins being white or fulvous. The fiank-feathers have 



much the same character. The ventral feathers and under tail-coverts are white, some of the 



latter traversed with dilute brown markings. Eectrices pale grey, tinged tawny and profusely 



freckled with transverse, minute, irregular lines. Six or seven pale irregularly circumscribed 



quasi-bands cross the rectrices, but without quite touching the shafts. These bands are minutely 



dotted with pale brown, and margined above and below with a distinct brown line. Penultimate 



outer pair broadly indented on both webs with pure white. Shafts above pale ruddy brown, 



below tawny white. Rectrices below appear pale greyish brown, banded with pallid tawny. 



Eectrices tipped brown. The long narial bristles are black. The bill is as in the rufous bird. 



Upper fourth of anterior side of the tarsus is feathered. Wing 4-62, tail 5, tarsus 0-5, middle 



toe 062, bill from forehead 1, width of gape 1-12. 



No. 5, cJ (?) adult, ex Malacca {mus. nostr.). This example closely resembles the one above 

 described, but has the plumage of the head of a darker brown. The whole back with a more 

 decided dark rufous tinge. The pale caudal bands more regular in outline and running right 

 across the feathers, and the darker and broader interspaces more rufous brown. Wing 4-75, 

 tail 5, bill from forehead 0'9, width of gape 1-18. 



No. 6, d C?) not quite adult C?), ex Malacca (mus. nostr.). In general tone of colour this 

 example closely resembles No. 4. The auricular plumes are fully developed, and the bill is that 

 of an adult; but the white nuchal collar is only indicated by a few feathers, and might be 

 overlooked. The scapulars exhibit white all over or only on the outer webs ; the white on the 

 throat-plumes is more irregularly distributed, while the pure Avhite small spots on the major 

 wing-coverts are more abundant. The rectrices resemble those of No. 2. Wing 4-5, tail 4-62, 

 bill from forehead 09, width of gape 1T6. 



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