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with grey. The coverts below the winglet, are mostly a lighter 
brown. The first six primaries, of which all but the first are 
conspicuously emarginate on the outer web, are all black, or 
blackish brown, below the emarginations ; but, except the two 
first, the rest are a paler brownish on the outer web, above the 
emarginations. All six are notched on the inner web, (the 
sixth least manifestly so), all are blackish brown on the inner 
webs below the notches, and all are much mottled, or obscurely 
though broadly barred, with greyish on the inner web above 
the notches. ‘The last four primaries, are not quite alike in the 
two wings, all have dark tips, longest in the seventh, shortest 
in the tenth; but the outer webs above this, are three of them 
grey and one somewhat fulvous brown, in one wing; and two of 
them grey and two fulvous brown in the other ; the grey showing 
traces of incomplete, broad, brownish bars, and the inner webs 
of all, being of a somewhat lighter brown, lightest in the tenth, 
broadly but incompletely barred throughout with grey. The 
secondaries are dark brown, but of somewhat varying shades, all 
with ill-defined, broad, grey bars on the inner webs, and traces 
of the same, in a good light, on the outer webs of some. 
The tertials are similarly barred, but are a (somewhat) 
lighter and more sandy brown than the secondaries. The 
whole of the chin, throat, sides of the neck, and ear coverts, 
are a nearly uniform and rather dark umber brown. The 
feathers of the chin, and part of the throat, are rather scanty, 
and show the white of their bases through, more or less. The 
whole of the breast, abdomen, sides, and thigh coverts, are a 
warm, but light umber brown, a shade darker than the light 
colour of the upper parts, mingled with dark feathers, of the 
same shade as the darker colour of the back, &c. The dark 
feathers are most numerous on the breast, and amongst the 
longer thigh coverts. The axillaries, and the whole of the 
wing lining, except the lower greater coverts, (which are a 
greyish brown, many of them more or less barred in both webs 
with greyish white), are a rich umber brown, intermediate 
between the two shades of the lower parts. ‘The vent feathers, 
and those of the lower tail coverts, are a lighter brown, and 
their whitish basal portions, show through, more or less. 
Of the 4th stage, well known in Europe; I think it un- 
necessary to give a detailed description; but I note that Dr. 
Bree’s figure, is very defective, insomuch as the whole inter- 
scapulary region, by him shown as a yellowish brown, little 
darker than the head and nape, is really, an intense, almost 
black brown, and this too is the colour of the lesser, and median 
wing coverts, and leg plumes, given in his plate as a rich red- 
