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thers tipped and margined with fulvous white, very narrowly 
towards the head, and more broadly towards the points of 
the scapulars. The hue of the back of the neck is slightly 
darker. The quills are much the same colour, but somewhat 
more bluish. All the quills have a number of incomplete 
bars, or oval spots, of rufous white on the inner web; the last 
five primaries, the secondaries, and the tertiaries have each two 
or three tiny rufous white spots, on the outer webs also; and the 
ereater coverts of the secondaries, and tertiaries, have similar 
small inconspicuous spots on both webs; and all the secondaries 
and tertiaries, and the last few primaries, are narrowly tipped 
with buify white. The rump, and lower back are a somewhat 
paler, and more sandy brown, margined with pale rufous; the 
upper tail coverts are a still more sandy brown, tipped and mar- 
gined, with dingy white, and with one or more incomplete bars 
of fulvous white. The tail feathers are brown, paler and san- 
dier on the centre feathers, and darker, and more slaty on the 
outer feathers, all narrowly tipped with dirty white, and all 
with six or seven + inch broad transverse bars on both webs, 
fulvous white on the centre feathers, and rufous white on the 
exterior feathers. These bars are scarcely visible on the outer 
web of the exterior feather. Chin, and upper part of throat, 
pure white, a dark brown cheek stripe from under the eye, 
margined with pale rufous ; ear coverts mingled pale brown and 
rufous white. Hinder portion of the cheeks white, some of the 
feathers tinged pale rufous; an ill-defined brown stripe (the 
feathers slightly tipped with fulvous white,) running backwards 
from the posterior angle of the eye, and dividing the white of 
the hind cheeks, from the white of the sides of the nape. The 
lower throat, and upper portion of the breast, fulvous white, 
each feather dark shafted, and with a narrow somewhat pear- 
shaped streak, of dark brown, towards the tip. The rest of the 
breast, sides, and upper abdomen, fulvous white; each feather 
with a well marked central stripe of brown, narrowest in front, 
broadest towards the sides. Lower abdomen, and vent, white, 
slightly tinged with fulvous, a few of the feathers dark shafted. 
Lower tail coverts, (which do not reach within two inches of the 
end of the tail) white, with two or three transverse, somewhat 
wavy bars, of pale brown. Interior thigh coverts, white. Ex- 
terior thigh coverts, white, tinged with fulvous, each feather 
dark shafted, and with a central lanceolate stripe of brown. Un- 
der surface of tail, and quills, greyish brown, the bars above 
mentioned showing through. The lower wing coverts, all red- 
dish brown, conspicuously" margined at the tip, and the longer 
ones barred with somewhat fulvous white. 
