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with brown. The upper tail coverts, fulvous white. The tail 
feathers, pale wood brown, much abraded, with dirty fulvous 
tips, and showing, towards the bases, traces of a mottled paler, 
and darker barring. ‘The primary quills are dark brown, al- 
most black. The secondaries and tertiaries paler, and dingier 
brown, with a mere trace of a fulvous white tipping, but the 
tertiaries are a good deal mottled with fulvous white. The 
median, and greater wing coverts are, here and there, tipped 
with fulvous white, but many are not so. The chin, throat, 
sides of the neck, breast, and abdomen, are pale buffy brown. 
The feathers margined with darker brown, which latter, however, 
is very narrow, and almost wanting on most of the throat fea- 
thers, while it occupies the greater portion of the feathers on 
the lower breast, and abdomen. The tibial plumes, vent, and 
lower tail coverts are dingy reddish buff; the lesser and me- 
dian lower wing coverts, are reddish buff, more or less centred 
with brown, and the greater lower wing coverts, are mingled 
white and blackish brown. The lineation of the lower surface, 
is more obscure and ill-defined than in what I take to be later 
forms of this same stage. In the next form of this stage, every 
feather of the head, nape, and upper back, is brown ; (a sort of 
hair brown,) darker than in the form above described, witha 
conspicuous narrow, fulvous, central stripe. All the wing 
coverts, and scapulars, are tipped with fulvous, or fulvous white, 
the lesser ones, narrowly, in fact with a mere spot at the tip; 
the larger ones, more broadly. The rump, back, and upper 
tail coverts, are as above described ; but the tail is a dingy, wood 
brown, without any trace of bars, and broadly tipped with ful- 
vous white. 
The secondaries are conspicuously tipped with white, or ful- 
vous white. The chin, throat, and ear coverts are unstreaked 
fulvous ; the breast, and upper two thirds of the abdomen, are 
a warm, somewhat purplish brown, with conspicuous, well de- 
fined, narrow, central, fulvous stripes. The lesser, and median 
lower wing coverts, are more mingled with brown, than in the 
specimen above described, and the larger lower coverts are grey- 
ish white, mottled with blackish brown, and the axillaries, 
which in the form first described, were reddish buff, mottled 
_ with brown, are in this one, similar to the feathers of the breast. 
In another form of this stage, the head, and back resemble the 
form first described ; the tail, and wings, the second; while the 
chin, throat and ear coverts are very pale buff, and the breast, 
and abdomon, are of the same colour; each feather narrowly 
margined with the warm purplish brown ;—noticed as the pre- 
vailing colour of these feathers, in the second form. 
