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upper tail-coverts white witli a transverse blotch of pale rufous 

 near their tip ; exposed portions of tail feathers above ashy grey, 

 all tipped with white and crossed with transverse bars of blackish 

 brown ; inner webs washed with rufous ; outer webs of external 

 feathers washed with same colour, but of a deeper tint towards 

 base ; under surface of tail feathers buff, the bars showing 

 through indistinctly ; general colour of Avings above dark brown, 

 feathers on shoulders margined with deep rufouts, wing-coverts 

 narrowly margined with buff; secondaries, primaries, and pri- 

 mary-coverts ashy grey, margined narrowly with white, their 

 inner webs tinged with light rufous buff at the base, all crossed 

 with a series of transverse blackish bars — indistinct only on the 

 anterior portion of the primaries, which is of a blackish brown, 

 the terminal bars the widest, forming a subterminal blotch of 

 blackish brown ; under surface of primaries and secondaries light 

 ashy grey, having the basal portion of inner webs washed with 

 rufous buff, dark bars of the upper surface distinctly showing 

 through ; axillaries and under wing-covers light rufous buff 

 strongly barred with deep rufous, shoulders underneath light 

 rufous buff, each feather striped with deep rufous down the 

 centre ; chest and breast buff ; abdomen, ilanks, thighs, and 

 upper tail-coverts rufous buff, deepest in tint on abdomen and 

 flanks, each feather on chest and breast centered with a lanceo- 

 late stripe of dark brown, those of abdomen and flanks with 

 a broad stripe, and those of thighs and under tail-coverts with 

 a narrow stripe of rich rufous ; bill black, cere greenish yellow ; 

 tarsi dark brown with a greenish tinge. Total length 21 inches, 

 bill 1'3 inch, along the culmen 1"4:5, from anterior margin of 

 nostril 0-75, wing from flexure 15'5 inches, tail 9"5, tarsi 3"83, 

 middle toe 1"7, hind toe 0'8. 



Young. Above uniform dark sooty brown ; nape and hind neck 

 tinged mesially with deep rufous buff ; wings blackish, second- 

 aries, and some of the wing-coverts and primaries, margined with 

 light brown, shafts reddish brown ; under surface of the wino- 

 dull dark brown, basal portion of inner webs of primaries lio-ht 

 brown and washed with fulvous on the margins, small feathers 

 on under surface of shoulders tipped with deep rufous ; axil- 

 laries indistinctly lined transversely in certain lights ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts dark blackish brown — the latter margined 

 with fulvous, with the basal half buff tinged near the middle with 

 pale fulvous ; tail above dark brown, blackish brown at the tips, 

 margined with buff, inner webs of nearly all the feathers mottled 

 with rufous, and showing signs of indistinct blackish bars, 

 external feathers becoming more and more strongly washed with 

 tawny rufous ; tail beneath light brown, margins of inner webs 

 washed with rufous, more extensively on external feathers, tips of 

 all dark brown, their margins washed with buff, shafts whitish • 



