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the filaments are all very conspicuously 

 white. 



The adult male has the whole forehead 

 and crown blackish, with some pale shaft- 

 streaks on the former. A broad band of 

 white commences in front of the eye, 

 passes over it and skirts the black of the 

 crown. The chin is black. The sides 

 of the head, the throat and the whole 

 neck are chocolate-brown streaked with 

 white. The upper part of the mantle 

 and the whole breast are barred with 

 fulvous and brown, the bars on the mantle 

 and upper breast being concentric with 

 the margins of the feathers, and those 

 on the lower breast more or less trans- 

 verse and straight. The upper part of 

 the abdomen is white ; the lower part 

 white with narrow, indistinct, undulating 

 lines of brown. The sides of the body 

 are white, barred with narrow undulating 

 black lines. The longer flank-feathers 

 are terminated by a broad white bar, fol- 

 lowed by a broad tip of bluish grey. The 

 under tail-coverts are pale buff, blotched 

 with brown. The axillaries are pure 

 white, and the under wing-coverts bluish 

 grey, with the middle portion white. The 

 lower part of the mantle and the back 

 are dark brown, the feathers margined 



