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especially on the lesser wing coverts, being somewhat triangular 
in shape. Winglet, dark brown, narrowly margined with rufous 
on the outer web, and with spots or incomplete transverse bars 
of the same on both webs. Greater coverts of the primaries, 
dark brown (with a trace of or in some a well-marked paler 
tipping), paler towards the margins of the interior webs, and 
with a few blotches of the same warm rufous hue as characterizes 
the wing coverts on the outer webs and broad bars of the same, 
more or less incomplete on the inner webs. Primaries dark 
brown on the outer webs (which have an excessively narrow paler 
or pale rufous edging, and are unspotted, with the exception of 
three or four rufous spots, on those of the last two or three), and 
inner webs: brown at the tips, white at the base; the termediate 
portions being partly white and partly brown, a set of brown teeth 
or scallops of brown, running out from the shaft towards the mar- 
gin, and a set of similar white teeth or scallops running out 
alternately with them from the margin towards the shaft. The 
tips of the white scallops deeply tinged with rufous, where they 
approach the shaft. Im some of the primaries before the regular 
scallops commence, there are near the tip in the inner webs 
one or more oval rufous spots. ‘The secondaries are a lighter 
brown, narrowly but distinctly tipped with rufous, or in some 
dingy, white, and barred transversely with broad rufous bars, 
which pale and become almost or quite pure white towards the 
margins of the inner webs, and this more so towards the bases, 
where on the inner webs, these is scarcely any rufous and less 
so towards the tips where there is scarcely any white. It is to be 
noted that in the earlier secondaries, the brown and in the latter 
the rufous and white predominate. The tertials connect the 
scapulars and secondaries and resemble both; but are more 
uniformly rufous and brown, and have less (if any) white on the 
inner webs than the later secondaries. Lower back, rump and 
upper tail coverts grey, with a vinous or pinkish tinge, regularly 
barred with pretty broad bars of brown. In some, the lower 
back and rump are uniform with upper back and scapulars, only 
slightly paler; while the upper tail coverts are fulvous white 
but barred as usual. The tail feathers are a vinous rufous, tipped 
with white most broadly so in the exterior, least broadly so, on 
the centre ones, and with a broad subterminal band of blackish 
brown usually narrower on the 2nd exterior feather, and much 
narrower on the exterior feathers. Above the subterminal band, 
each feather is conspicuously barred with transverse dark brown 
bars, somewhat irregular; those on the two webs, not exactly 
coinciding at the shaft, and somewhat incomplete, as not extend- 
ing quite to the margin. The exterior feather often has a narrow 
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