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and the lores either immaculate or very finely streaked ; angle of 

 chin white changing into dull orange-yellow on chin, throat, fore- 

 neck and in a narrow band on the nape. Hind-neck white narrowly 

 barred with black, the ground-colour changing into vinaceous-buff 

 or buff on the upper back, and the bars changing to vermiculations, 

 becoming most minute on the upper back ; lower back, rump and 

 upper tail-coverts greyish-white vermiculated with narrow black 

 bands, which are broadest and most definite on the rump ; the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts are often tinged with yellow, giving a sort of 

 golden sheen to these parts. Scapulars, wing-coverts and innermost 

 secondaries buff, the greater secondary-coverts, scapulars and 

 secondaries often tinged with rufescent and somewhat contrasting 

 with the smaller coverts, the whole very finely vermiculated with 

 brown and the scapulars also marked with large blotches of black on 

 the inner web, these forming a narrow triangular patch on the back. 

 Primary-coverts and primaries black, the latter greyish towards the 

 end and with large greyish-buff marks on the inner webs of all but 

 the first four, though obsolete on the fifth and sometimes on the 

 sixth ; outer secondaries gradually changing from the colour of the 

 primaries to that of the inner secondaries. Axillaries black, under 

 wing-coverts on shoulder vermiculated brown and white, remaining 

 aspect of under wing brown. Fore-neck and upper breast vinous- 

 grey or vinous-white, narrowly barred with dark-brown or blackish, 

 the ground-colour deepening towards the lower breast and the bars 

 becoming very narrow ; lower breast vinous-grey ; abdomen, flanks 

 and shorter under tail-coverts white, remaining under tail-coverts 

 chestnut, barred with black and tipped white ; thigh feathers white 

 with tiny brown vermiculations ; central tail-feathers like the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts, but prolonged with long narrow-webbed 

 filaments of dark grey ; remaining tail-feathers like the longer 

 under tail-coverts. 



The general tint of the upper plumage depends principally on 

 the scapulars and the inner secondaries, the back and rump not 

 differing much individually. In some birds the parts first mentioned 

 are quite a bright pink-vinaceous with the black markings almost 

 entirely concealed by the ends of the overlapping feathers, in others, 

 the feathers being abraided, the black spots form large patches and 



