6 Striqes. 



spotted and vermiculated with white, tail sooty-brown with 

 whitish vermiculations at the base of the feathers of the inner 

 web and remains of six to eight indistinct cross-bars ; all the 

 under surface of the body sooty-brown, the base of the feathers 

 ashy-white, the terminal half spotted and A^ermiculated with 

 white, showing the remains of alternate white and brown cross- 

 bars, feathers on the thighs and legs ashy-white at the base, and 

 barred alternately with brown and white cross-bars, bristles on 

 the feet whitish, claws black, bill yellowish, dark brown on the 

 margins. 



Specimens not quite adult have the facial disc as in the adults 

 smoky brown, the lower and gular portion ashy-white, the inner 

 series of the plumes white very slightly margined with brown, 

 the outer series strongly tipped and the mesial portion of the 

 plumes vermiculated with brown, the feathers of all the upper 

 surface wath a white subterminal spot, those of the interscapular 

 region with remains of white vermiculations ; the basal portion 

 of the inner webs of the primaries whitish, the outer webs with 

 six to eight obsolete cross-bars of blackish-brown and vermicula- 

 tions of ashy-white on the outer webs, the secondaries white at 

 the base, the outer webs like those of the primaries and showing 

 remains of cross-bars on the shaft line, tail feathers dark brown 

 and similarly marked to the secondaries, under tail-coverts brown 

 at the ends, vermiculated with white ; all feathers of the under 

 surface ashy-white at the base, the ends crossed "with irregular 

 wavy blackish-brown bars, still younger birds are similar, with 

 the facial disc dusky, a blackish shade all round the eye, the frill 

 more distinctly tipped with black, the upper surface of the 

 feathers of a clear slaty-black with m.uch larger spots, formed by 

 the remains of alternate black and white bai-s, largest upon the 

 interscapular region and wing-coverts, scapulars with a larger 

 white spot at the tip and crossed with numerous wavy narrow 

 white bands, primaries with six to eight blackish bands separated 

 by lines and vermiculations of white, outer webs strongly vermi- 

 culated with white, all the quills with a white spot at the tip, 

 secondaries white at the base of the inner web, the remainder of 

 the feather banded with from six to eight blackish-brown bars, 

 the interspaces on both webs vermiculated with black and white, 

 centre tail feathers similar but without the white bases, the outer 

 feathers white on the inner webs toward the base, and showing 

 remains of from six to eight blackish bars, the interspaces ver- 

 miculated with black and white, the under surface feathers of the 

 chest dusky at the base, on the remainder of the body white 

 crossed with three or four irregular wavy lines of slaty-black, 

 with indications of a white spot at the tip of each feather, under 

 wing-coverts, thighs and legs similar, the cross-bars not so well 

 defined, the under tail-coverts with broader bars towards the end 

 of the feathers. 



