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vermiculated with black; inner and longest scapulars have both webs 
marked in this manner, their inner webs being the darker; last of the 
longer scapulars with an irregular terminal spot of black; lesser wing- 
coverts nearly black, tipped with chocolate-brown; bases of primary- 
coverts fulvous brown, their outer webs heavily spotted with rufous-brown, 
inner webs less so, and a subterminal bar of black crossing entire outer 
web and half of inner web, all the feathers tipped with prominent spots 
of creamy white; secondary-coverts like primary-coverts but the black 
bar and white spot confined to outer web; primaries fulvous-brown when 
held toward light, changing to smoky brown when held away from light; 
outer webs spotted with buffy white throughout their entire length, the 
spots being much lighter on the second and third primaries; tips of feath- 
ers mottled with rufous-brown; general color of secondaries same as pri- 
maries, their outer webs and tips being spotted with rufous-brown and 
these spots in turn being speckled with fulvous-brown ; inner three second- 
aries speckled with fulvous-brown, rufous-brown, and creamy white, each 
feather with a terminal spot of fulvous ; general color of tail rufous-brown, 
distinctly barred with lighter rufous-brown, each of these bars succeeded 
by a narrow irregular bar of black, the entire feather thickly speckled with 
black and each feather having a small black terminal spot; throat and 
fore breast like sides of face; a buffy white pectoral band continuous with 
nuchal collar and succeeded by a second creamy white band, the feathers 
between the two bands being brown, thickly vermiculated with black and 
creamy white; abdomen lighter; flanks and under tail-coverts ashy, 
slightly tinged with pinkish, some of the feathers with dark black shaft- 
stripes, others with small terminal spots of black; under surface of tail 
much like coverts, the black markings of upper surface showing only 
faintly ; shafts of tail-feathers creamy white; under wing-coverts fulvous- 
brown, tipped with white; axillars white. Eyes pale yellow; legs, feet, 
and nails nearly white; upper mandible brown, lower dirty green. Cul- 
men, 27; wing, 139; tail, 105; tarsus, 15. 
“Food, beetles. Native name ‘cow-cow.’ The single specimen obtained 
is a fully adult male; its rich and complicated markings are very difficult 
to describe. We have named it in honor of Mr. Menage.” (Bourns and 
Worcester.) 
Female.—“Head and hind neck a fine mixture of black and fulvous, 
the feathers terminally barred with broader bands of these tints, pro- 
ducing a spotted appearance; an indistinct buff band from the forehead 
over the eye; elongated auriculars fulvous, banded and tipped with black; 
nuchal collar banded with buff, fulvous, and black; mantle and lower 
back reddish brown, closely vermiculated with black and darker than the 
head; upper tail-coverts similar, but more coarsely vermiculated ; scap- 
ulars plain cinnamon on the outer webs, vermiculated with black on the 
inner webs, each feather with a subapical spot of black; wing-coverts 
