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broadly mai-gined with bright rich rufous, tlirough which a narrow 

 blacli shaft-line is produced from the subterminal bar. The 

 spurious-wings, primaries and secondaries, dark ashy-brown, 

 darkest at the ends of the primaries, all crossed with blackish- 

 brown bars, darker and broader towards the tips of the feathers, 

 the shafts light reddish-brown ; the inner webs of a lighter 

 brown, becoming white at the base, where thev are thickly freckled 

 and spotted with markings and broken bars of dark-brown. The 

 secondaries very narrowly margined with white at the tips ; 

 under surface of primaries and secondaries ashy-white {qlistcninr/ 

 ichite in certain lights), crossed ^Yith dark ashy-brown bars, 

 becoming broken up into spots and freckles at the base of the 

 inner webs, some of which have their margins slightly tinged with 

 light rufous ; the outer series of the under wing-coverts ashy- 

 white, crossed with ashy-brown bars, and washed with light 

 rufous on the tips and margin?, those nearest the scapulars having 

 a black shaft-line, and remains of dark-brown bars ; the rest of 

 the under wing-coverts rich rufous, with a black shaft-stripe 

 Avidening iato an angular subterminal spot, and remains of 

 blackish cross-bars ; wing-coverts above dark ashy-brown, the outer 

 series margined broadly on the outer, and slightly on the inner 

 webs with rufous ; the remainder ashy-brown at the base, blackish 

 at the tips, and broadly margined with rich rufous, deepest in tint 

 on the marginal feathers and shoulders ; throat buff tinged with 

 rufous, and having a narrow black stripe down the centre of eacb 

 feather ; sidesof the face and ear-coverts dull dark brown, narrowlv 

 margined with buff, those nearest the sides of the neck tinged 

 with rufous ; the whole of the under surface of the bodv bright 

 deep- rufous, each feather (except the axillaries, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts) centered with a black streak, widest on the chest and 

 breast, narrowing on the flanks, where it forms at the tips of the 

 feathers a subterminal angular spot, almost obsolete or forming 

 a narrow shaft-line only on the abdomen ; tail below ashy-white- 

 {glistening in certain lights), crossed with bars of blackish-brown, 

 the subterminal one broadest ; upper surface of the tail dark^ 

 ashy-brown, crossed with (t^velve or more) w^avy bars of blackish- 

 brown, the last deepest and broadest, the tips narrowly margined 

 with white ; inner webs of the lateral feathers almost white at 

 the base, the bars broken, and the interspaces thickly mottled 

 with dark ashy-brown; bill blackish horn colour, cere yellowish, 

 iris deep yellow, legs and feet light yellow. 



Total length 20 inches, wing 14-3, tail 0, tibia* 3-94, tarsus* 3, 

 hind claw along the curve 1'35, across the curve 1'15 ; bill from 

 forehead I'l inch, from gape 1'2, from nostril OT, height at 

 nostril 0'5, width U4o. 



* Measurements taken from ad. $ sk. the ends of the bones laid bare. 

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