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p. 14 (1889) ; Salvad. Aggiunte Orn. Paij. et Molucc. p. 12 (1889) ; 



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id. Nests and Eggs Austr. Bds., p. 9, pi. iv, figs. 1 and 2 (1SS9) ; 



id. Proc Linn. Soc, NS.W., vol. iv, 2nd ser., p. 1024 (1890) ; 



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Semarks. The following description of what appears to me to 

 be a fully adult but not a very old bird will be found to agree 

 ■with the stage of plumage in which full-grown birds of this 

 species are usually obtained. 



Adult female. General colour dull ashy browu, shaded with 

 fulvous and dark brown ; primaries blackish; the whole of the 

 head and neck dull brown tinged with rufous, chiefly down the 

 centre of the feathers, with the shafts black, giving a streaked 

 appearance ; sides of the face and throat light brown, the bases 

 of the feathers darker ; chest, breast, and abdomen dull fulvous 

 brown, with blotches of dull white or fulvous near the centre of 

 feathers on either side of the shaft, and a stripe of dull white down 

 the tip, which is sometimes washed with fulvous ; on those parts 

 nearest the abdomen the stripes are narrower and the blotches 

 larger and more conspicuous ; flanks fulvous brown, bases of the 

 feathers white ; thighs dull fulvous with a dark brown shaft-stripe 

 and irregular cross-bars ; under tail-coverts fulvous crossed with 

 irregular broken bars of dull deep brown ; tail below ashy brown, 

 washed with fulvous on the inner webs and freckled with dark 

 brown ; tail above dark brown Avashed with ashy on the outer 

 margins and tips, and freckled with light rufous at the base ; 

 inner webs fulvous, shaded at the tips and thickly freckled and 

 crossed with irregular broken bars of dark brown on the body of 

 the feathers ; upper tail-coverts, rump, and back, dull brown, the 

 feathers white at the base ; margins of the shoulders and the under 

 wing-coYerts white at the base, becoming ashy brown crossed with 



