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and otherwise marked with black, rufous 

 and ashy. The rump and the upper 

 tail-coverts are rufous, very irregularly 

 barred with black. The tail-feathers are 

 black, indented at the margins with 

 rufous, and broadly tipped with ashy 

 grey above and silvery white below. The 

 upper wing-coverts are firmly barred with 

 black and deep rufous. The first primary 

 has the outer web very distinctly margined 

 with creamy white, and there are a few 

 fulvous marks between this margin and 

 the web. The inner web is brown, with 

 a series of small pale rufous notches on 

 the margin. The other primaries and 

 all the short outer secondaries are brown, 

 with very distinct triangular rufous notches 

 on the outer web, and somewhat similar 

 but paler notches or short bars on the 

 margin of the inner web. The chin is 

 white. The throat and the cheeks are 

 whitish with interrupted black bars. The 

 whole lower plumage is pale rufous, very 

 regularly cross-barred with black. The 

 under tail-coverts have these bars more 

 or less diagonal, and have, in addition, 

 an arrow-head-shaped black spot near 

 the tip. The under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries are very firmly barred with pale 

 rufous and black. | 



