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chin and throat are greyish white. The 

 mantle, the back, the rump, the scapulars 

 and the upper tail-coverts are dark brown, 

 each feather margined with fulvous ashy. 

 The tail-feathers are brown, with narrow 

 pale margins. The feathers of the sides 

 of the breast are brown, with fulvous 

 margins ; those of the middle breast dull 

 fulvous with indistinct brown centres. 

 The greater part of the abdomen is pale 

 fulvous white, obscurely mottled with a 

 darker shade of the same. The lower 

 part of the abdomen and the under tail- 

 coverts are fulvous white, the former 

 faintly mottled with brown, the latter with 

 large brown spots. The feathers of the 

 sides of the body are brown, with fulvous 

 margins. The axillaries are pure white ; 

 the under wing-coverts are brown, edged 

 with grey, and with the central portion 

 pure white. The upper wing-coverts are 

 light brown washed with ashy-grey, the 

 lower series tipped with white. The 

 primaries have the outer web and tip 

 of the inner, dark brown ; the remainder 

 of the inner webs pale drab ; the shafts 

 white. The outer secondaries are entirely 

 brown, with broad white tips, and the 

 outer webs frequently glossed with greyish 

 green. The inner, long secondaries are 



