BUTEONIN A, 47 
brownish-grey, broad, incomplete, rather wavy, transverse bars, 
about one or two on each feather; inner surface of the wings 
mingled white and very pale grey, only the terminal one-third to 
one-half of the second to the fifth primaries blackish-brown ; 
the first to the third quills are conspicuously notched on their 
inner webs, the second to the fourth emarginate on outer 
webs. 
Female.—The lores dusky, covered with black bristle-like hairs, 
as is also the point of the chin; a patch (scarcely noticeable 
in some specimens) over the eye, and in front of it, white, tipped 
with brownish; below the eye, and front of the ear-coverts, 
somewhat purer, while a band, inside the ruff, from the base 
of the lower mandible over the ear-coverts to the sides of the 
nape, dark umber-brown, usually darkest towards the nape, the 
feathers narrowly edged with rufous, and centred darker; a dark 
streak from the posterior corner of the eye, meeting the top of 
this band ; forehead, and a line from the forehead over the eye, 
and the last mentioned dark streak, nearly unstriated rufous- 
brown; the rest of the forehead, and top and back of the 
head, - and nape, where the ruff joins in, and back and 
sides of the neck, rufous, the feathers all more or less broadly 
centred with umber-brown; the centres being larger, propor- 
tionably, at the base of the neck; upper back and smaller 
scapulars umber-brown, most of the feathers usually tipped 
with rufous; the longest scapulars somewhat lighter colored, 
with scarcely a trace of the rufous tipping; middle back 
often of a somewhat lighter brown than the upper back, and 
the feathers with conspicuous rufous tips or margins; rump 
feathers slightly darker, and with somewhat less conspicuous 
rufous tips; upper tail-coverts pure white, with only a spot or 
incomplete bar of dark or pale brown, or rufous, towards the tips ; 
centre tail-feathers dark umber-brown, inconspicuously tipped 
with grey, scarcely perceptible in some and with four or five 
transverse grey bars, the broadest bars towards the tip ; the 
next feather darker brown, conspicuously tipped with white or 
rufous-white, and with one broad, and two or three narrow, pale 
rufous, and greyish transverse bars, the rufous being chiefly next 
the shaft; the next feather much the same, but the white or 
rufous (some are whiter, some more rufous) of the bar, and 
tipping, purer, and a considerable patch at the base, on the outer 
web, mingled white and rufous, with only a tinge of brown ; 
the second, exterior feather, nearly pure white, or a pale rufous, 
as the case may be, with subterminal, central, and basal bands 
of brown, which are more or less rufous in the two latter on the 
outer web; the exterior feather has almost the whole outer web 
rufous-white, and the interior more or less rufous-white, with 
traces of a subterminal and two other bands of mingled darkish 
rufous and brown; the whole of the lesser wing-coverts 
umber-brown, broadly margined with rufous or rufous-white ; 
