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border of the lores, between the lores and the eyes, and over 
the eyes, and a somewhat similar stripe running immediately 
under the eye. Cheeks and ear coverts, dull rufous, the feathers 
with narrow central blackish brown streaks. Crown, occiput, 
nape, sides and back of neck, pale rufous buff, the feathers centered 
with umber brown, broadly on the centre of the crown and occi- 
put, where there is atrace of a rudimentary crest; and narrowly 
elsewhere, and most of the feathers paling off at their margins. 
Upper back and inter-scapulary regions, rather pale umber 
brown. Mid back, a pale wood brown ; middle of rump, umber 
brown ; sides of rump and upper tail coverts, buffy, or rufous 
white. Scapulars, mingled fulvous white and pale wood brown ; 
a few of the longest scapulars only being a rich umber brown. 
Lesser wing coverts, a rather rufous umber brown, the feathers 
conspicuously darker centered; median wing coverts, wood 
brown, broadly margined with fulvous white ; secondary greater 
wing coverts, a rather pale umber brown, very narrowly tipped 
with fulvous white. Secondaries a deep umber brown, narrow- 
ly tipped with fulvous white ; primaries and their greater coverts, 
very deep umber brown ; some of the hinder primaries somewhat 
lighter brown, and narrowly margined towards the tips with 
fulvous white. ‘Tertiaries, pale wood brown, exterior webs 
nearly entirely buffy white. ‘ail feathers, pale dingy umber 
brown, very narrowly tipped with fulvous white, and with traces 
of a terminal and three or four other, darker, transverse bands. 
Chin, throat, breast, and whole lower parts, fulvous or buffy 
white, palest on the leg feathers, lower tail coverts, and wing 
lining. ‘The feathers of the chin, throat, and sides of the breast 
more rufous, and with long, narrow, central, dark brown streaks, 
broadest on the sides of the breast. Avxillaries, wing lining, 
and sides, white, mostly with dark shafts, and with irregularly 
shaped, more or less cordate, spots, on the shaft near the tip. 
Some of the axillaries have three or four such spots along the 
shaft. The lower surtace of the earlier primaries, is a peculiarly 
glossy bronze brown; the first five have most conspicuous notches 
on the inner webs, and the second to the sixth have well marked 
emarginations on the outer web. 
In examining this bird, one is impressed by the fact, that all 
the light wood brown feathers of the seapulars, and wing co- 
verts, are old and abraded ones, whilst all the deeper coloured 
ones, are new. 
So far as this and another similar example, now before me, go, 
I should be inclined to say, that the dark brown form was the 
older one. Of this darker form, Col. Tytler has a specimen, 
killed at Umballa, a female, and to my notion clearly an old 
