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ovate patch, of dark brown along the shafts. Thigh-coverts 
dark brown, a little speckled and mottled with white. Feathers 
of the tarsus mingled pale brown, and white, with dark shafts. 
Under tail coverts pale brown, with ill-defined and irregular 
bars of pure white. Lesser lower coverts of the wing, white, 
with very dark brown patches. The rest of the wing lining 
nearly pure dark brown, with only here and there a few specks of 
white. The first six primaries conspicuously notched on the 
inner web, and the inner webs of these primaries, above the 
notches, much mottled with white. Lower surface of the tail 
feathers, greyish white, with brownish tips, somewhat mot- 
tled with dusky especially on the inner web. Avxillaries dark 
brown, irregularly blotched with pure white. 
No. 2, female, (shot on the banks of the Chumbal near Chick- 
nee, December 29th, 1866, beside the nest which was ready for 
laying in,) had the whole top and crown of the head moderately 
dark brown, only a few of the feathers towards the front of 
the head having assumed the rich dark brown hue, described in 
the first bird. The two central tail feathers also were a pale 
sandy brown, tipped with a broad band of dusky brown, and 
with five or six transverse, wavy, indistinct bars of the same, 
across both webs. The rest of the feathers being of the same 
hue as those described in the first specimen, except the second 
and third exterior on one side, which were also, of the sandy 
brown tint, indicative of an earlier stage of plumage. The ear 
coverts were nearly entirely dull brown with scarcely a trace of 
white about them, and the whole chin, throat, breast and abdo- 
men were white, every feather with a conspicuous central linear 
stripe of a somewhat dark brown, larger and more conspicuous on 
the sides and abdomen, and some of the feathers of these parts 
with traces of edging or imperfect bars of the same colour. The 
thigh coverts were a paler brown, conspicuously dark shafted 
and mottled with fulvous. I"eathers of the tarsus were slightly 
fulvous white with dark shafts. ‘There was more white in the 
wing lining than in No. 1. ‘The axillaries were of a paler hue, 
and more variegated with white; a few of the feathers of the 
point of the chin have elongated naked bristle-like shafts. 
No. 3, female, shot on the banks of the Senghur near Chuchow- 
lee, January 10th, 1867. The hue of the upper parts in this, was 
darker on the whole, than in No. 1, and the plumage was closer 
and firmer, moreover, almost the whole of the feathers of the 
head, back of neck, upper back, lesser scapulars and lesser wing 
coverts, were margined inconspicuously, with a somewhat paler 
and more rufous brown; in the feathers of the sides of the neck 
and a patch behind the ear coverts, running back and almost 
