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neck yellowish white, tinged rufous towards the sides, all the 
feathers dark shafted. Lores and ear coverts whitish, the latter 
dark shafted, tinged rufous towards the tips, and the hinder- 
most ones tipped blackish brown. A blackish brown line 
through the lores, (where it is very narrow,) running under the 
eyes, (where it is about 0°15 wide,) and joining into the dark 
tips of the hinder ear coverts. The whole breast, abdomen and 
lower parts generally, fulvous white, regularly barred transverse- 
ly with mingled dark brown and rufous, the bars on the breast 
being as broad as the interspaces and diminishing in width as 
they recede from the breast, till those on the tibial plumes, are 
only half as wide, and those on the lower tail coverts only 
average one-fourth as wide as the interspaces. There is a regu- 
larity, straightness, and closeness in the barrings of the lower 
parts, unlike any of the Huropean WVisus, that I have been able to 
compare them with and unlike the figures in Yarrell and in the 
Naturalist’s library. 
The sides are much tinged with rufous, which there nearly 
wholly displaces the brown. 
Then there is the young male in first plumage (sex ascertain- 
ed by dissection) shot by my friend, Capt. Marshall, R. E., at 
Solon on 30th September, and measured by him in the flesh. 
Dimensions. Length, 15°75. Hxpanse, 29°75. Wing, 9°75. 
Tarsus, 2°25. Mid toe to root of claw, 1:75. Foot, greatest 
length, 3°25; width, 2°8. Tail from vent, 8°5. Closed wings 
fall 3°8 short of end of tail. 
Description. Irides, bright yellow. Legs and feet, dingy 
yellow. Upper plumage, umber brown, edged rufous and cen- 
tered darker (almost black) on head and nape. Upper tail 
coverts (a trifle paler than the back,) dark shafted. Tail a drab 
brown narrowly white tipped, with five moderately broad, dark 
brown transverse bars, on both webs of all the feathers, except 
the outer webs of the external laterals, where they are indistinct, 
though not altogether wanting, one of the five bars being high 
up and hidden by the upper tail coverts. Forehead whitish, a 
conspicuous yellowish white band, feathers brown shafted, run- 
ning backwards from top of the eye, over ear coverts, fully 1 inch 
long. Lores dingy white, a trace of a dark line through them 
to the eye-line under the eye, and terminal halves of ear coverts, 
reddish or umber brown, rest of ear coverts, whole chin, throat 
and sides of neck, pale fulvyous, with conspicuous, very narrow, 
central stripes to feathers. Breast and upper abdomen pale 
buffy with numerous conspicuous narrow transverse arrow-head 
bars, the central portion of the bar bright rufous, the lateral 
portions dark brown; these bars are much the shape that sea- 
