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hinder part of the head brown, the feathers 

 with very narrow fulvous margins. The 

 remaining parts of the head, with the fore- 

 head and the whole neck, are whitish or pale 

 fulvous, closely streaked with dark brown. 

 Each feather of the upper breast and of 

 the sides of the breast is black, with 

 several narrow, concentric, white bars. 

 The feathers of the middle of the lower 

 breast are white, with one or two broad, 

 black bands. The upper part of the 

 abdomen is white ; the lower, white with 

 narrow brown undulating cross-bars. The 

 sides of the body are very distinctly barred 

 with brown and pale fulvous. The axil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts are pure 

 white. The under tail-coverts are deep 

 black. The mantle, the back and the 

 outer scapulars are vermiculated with 

 white or pale fulvous on a dark brown 

 ground. The inner scapulars are brown 

 with fulvous margins. The rump and the 

 upper tail-coverts are black. The tail- 

 feathers are ashy brown, the exterior ones 

 much mottled with white and fulvous. 

 The primaries are drab on the inner web, 

 the outer web and the tip of the inner 

 being brown. The first four secondaries 

 are brown tipped with white ; the next 

 four are black on the outer web and tipped 



