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naked, black shafts. Forehead, top and back of the head, the 
feathers a sort of wood brown, tipped and centred towards the tips, 
with a pale sandy, or whity brown ; chin, throat, and cheeks in- 
cluding ear coverts, about the same colour as the tippings of the 
feathers of the head, with traces of a darker tint on cheeks. 
The neck, all round, shoulders, scapulars (all but the few long- 
est) upper half of back, breast, abdomen, sides, axillaries, and 
the lesser, and median lower wing coverts, all with pale central 
stripes, (which are narrower, and more fulvous above; and 
broader and more nearly pure white below) and darker margins, 
which above are a sort of wood brown, and below more of an 
umber brown. The few longer scapulars, are a dark umber 
brown, with a central whitish spot at the tips. The lower half 
of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, are white ; the feathers 
more or less broadly margined towards the tips, with ‘wood 
brown, or buffy. The longest tail coverts are nearly pure 
white. Tail, uniform, rather rusty, wood brown ; the tips much 
abraded, and with a terminal fulvous white band, which, when 
the ~feathers were fresh, must have been one inch in width. 
The lesser, and median (upper) wing coverts are brown, paler 
towards the centres ; the median, with white spots on the tips at 
the shafts, most conspicuous towards the carpal joint, and most of 
the rest of the coverts, with more or less traces of such central 
terminal spots. Feathers under the winglet white, mingled with 
buffy ; winglet, primary, and greater coverts, dark brown tipped 
with white; secondary, and tertiary greater coverts, also conspi- 
cuously tipped white ; but of a lighter brown hue, changing gra- 
dually as they recede into the brown of the median and lesser 
coyerts. ‘The first six primaries conspicuously notched on the 
inner web, and the second to sixth inclusive, conspicuously, and 
the first shghtly, emarginate, on outer web. Beyond the notch- 
es and the emarginations (which are very high up, that of 
the 2nd being hidden by the greater coverts), the first six pri- 
maries are nearly black; above the emarginations, the outer 
webs are a deep brown, and above the notches the inner webs 
are greyish brown; with broad, incomplete, ill-defined grey 
transverse bars. The seventh is a deep brown, with the basal two- 
thirds of the inner web, as in preceding; all seven have the merest 
trace ofa pale tip. The last three primaries and all the seconda- 
ries, are broadly tipped with white. The last three primaries 
are a lighter brown than any of the preceding feathers, or 
than the secondaries; and are much silvered over with grey, 
the tenth being almost pure grey. The secondaries are a deep 
umber brown, but with some traces of grey mottling on the 
outer, and inner webs of the earlier ones, and the same is ob- 
