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which are very pronounced on the basal half of the tail, which is 

 white without any blackish frecklings, the outer feathers broadly 

 tipped with creamy-white ; crown of head, nape and hind-neck brown, 

 mottled with streaks and edgings of sandy-buff, with a few blue-grey 

 feathers intermixed ; lores and sides of crown pale sandy-buff 

 streaked with dark brown ; feathers above and round the eye uniform 

 creamy-buff ; sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks and throat light bluish- 

 grey, which is bordered by a broad band of black extending from the 

 sides of the hind-neck diagonally across the latter and uniting in a 

 broad band which runs down the centre of the lower throat ; around 

 the hind-neck and occupying the sides of the latter is a broad extent 

 of black which unites on the upper fore-neck ; this is bordered above 

 by a broad band of white which encircles the hind-neck, separates the 

 black on the sides of the neck, and descending on the latter to the 

 lower throat, unites there in a point ; across the lower fore-neck a 

 broad black band, which is separated from the lower throat by a band 

 of white which traverses the fore-neck also ; remainder of under- 

 surface pure white ; sites of the upper breast sandy-coloured and 

 mottled with black like the upper parts ; under wing-coverts, axillaries 

 and quill-lining pure white. 



Adult Female.— Whole upper surface rich buff or rufous-buff, 

 vermiculated with black and with black central lines here and there 

 widening into blotches ; on the hind-neck the markings are very fine 

 and the buff replaced by brown ; the black markings on the crown 

 form irregular bars ; lesser wing-coverts like the back but less 

 profusely marked with black, median coverts the same but with still 

 less black and with the buff becoming almost white at the tips, greater 

 coverts white with dark brown or blackish shaft-streaks and with a 

 few scattered specks and spots of black which become regular sub- 

 terminal bars on the innermost ; primaries dark-brown mottled with 

 white at the tips and with white bases, concealed on the outermost but 

 increasing in extent until the innermost are nearly all white, outer 

 secondaries white, with specks and bars of black at wide intervals, 

 inner secondaries like the back. Chin and upper throat dull buff' or 

 brownish-white, the under-neck the same streaked with black and buff' ; 

 sides of head like throat but streaked finely with black ; lower throat 

 and breast dull pale buff, the former streaked and the latter barred 



