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surface ashy-brown, transversely barred with white, some of the 

 bars washed with rufous ; quills dark brown, tipped witli white 

 and crossed besides by tine narrower whitish bare."* 



Adult male. Feathers on the forehead and over tlie eye white 

 at the base, the remainder of the feathers dark brown, with a 

 white cross band near the base, and remains of two anterior bars 

 in the form of white spots on the webs of the feathers, some also 

 with a narrower margin of white, on the crown of the head, nape, 

 sides of the neck, interscapular region, bacii, upper tail-coverts, 

 the bases of the feathers are dusky- brown, the exposed portion 

 of the feathers blackish-brown, on the head and hind neck with 

 two or in some the remains of a third white band and a narrow 

 white margin, on the interscapular region are two distinct white 

 bands, the remains of a third, near the base and on some a narrow 

 subterminai line of white, on the back the bars are less distinct, 

 and in some cases almost obsolete ; the upper tail-coverts show- 

 two or three distinct white bars, and also a narrow white margin, 

 tail feathers tipped with white and alternately crossed with broad 

 blackish and narrow white bands, six to nine in number, the 

 white expanding on and margining the inner webs towards the 

 basal portions of all but the centre two feathers where they are 

 narrowest ; wing-coverts blackish-brown, the smaller narrowly 

 barred with irregular ashy-white lines, the larger series with 

 three broader lines, and a distinct margin of white; quills black- 

 ish-brown tipped with white and having from six to eight oblique 

 or bracket shaped bars of fulvous becoming white on the margins 

 of the inner webs, secondaries similarly marked but showing 

 more white on the basal portions and inner webs, scapulars 

 blackish-brown like the back and crossed with from three to six 

 white bars tinged with fulvous, the last being sub-terminal and 

 narrowest ; chin and throat ashy -white with a lanceolate dark 

 brown shaft-stripe, all the feathers of the under surface dusky 

 at the base, the exposed portion of the feathers white crossed 

 with two bars of dark brown and having a narrow white margin : 

 under wing-coverts barred alternately with blackish-brown and 

 white, under tail-coverts white with two or three irregular cross- 

 bars, all the white cross-bars both on the upper and under surface 

 are in most specimens tinged with fulvous, or have an anterior 

 conterminal narrow line of fulvous, which tint is more con- 

 spicuous on the wing-coverts ; the outer webs of the quills are 

 also tinged with fulvous ; bill yellowish horn-colour, the tip and 

 margins dark brown, iris yellow, claws dark brown. 



Sahitat. Port Darwin, Port Essington, Cape York, Wide 

 Bay District, Eichmond and Clarence Kiver District, New South 

 "Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. 



* Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. ii, p. 179(1875). 



