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ereater primary coverts, a rather pale wood brown, most of 
them, especially the smaller ones, with dark brown centres, not 
sharply defined, but fading into the paler margins. Most of 
-the secondary greater coverts almost wholly white on the inner 
webs. Quills and primary greater coverts, umber brown, dark- 
est on the points of the earlier primaries where it is almost 
black, paling to a wood brown on the tertiaries. The second to 
the fifth primaries with conspicuous emarginations on the outer 
webs, above which they are paler, and obscurely barred with 
dingy buff. The first five primaries. conspicuously notched on 
the mner web; white on the under surface above the notches ; 
below the notches greyish white, tipped, and strongly bar- 
red with blackish brown. Chin and throat spotless white, base 
of neck in front, breast, and abdomen, pure white, the shafts of 
each feather blackish brown, but only towards the tip, and the 
feathers either tipped with rufous buff, or with a spot of that 
colour near the tip. Vent feathers and lower tail coverts dingy 
rufous or pale rufous brown, obscurely barred with fulvous 
white; tarsus yellowish white with a few faint brownish spots ; 
sides pale, more or less rufous brown, with here and there a trace 
of white mottling. Flanks and tibial plumes pale rufous brown, 
distinctly though irregularly barred with white. Avxillaries 
pale dingy rufous with a series of double white spots or imper- 
fect transverse bars. Wing lining white, barred, the larger 
lower coverts with blackish brown, the smaller ones with min- 
gled, dingy rufous and hair, brown. 
No. 2, a female, killed Ist November. In itsupper plumage, it 
greatly resembles the preceding, but from the nostril right over 
the eyeit had a broad stripe of buffy fawn, without any dark cen- 
tres to the feathers. The feathers of the top and back of the head 
and nape, instead of having narrow blackish brown central stripes, 
had the whole centres of this colour, leaving only moderately 
broad rufous buff borders. The back was slightly darker brown, 
as were also the wings and rump; the longest upper tail coverts 
were narrowly tipped with white and showed traces of one or 
two transverse white bars higher up. ‘The central tail feathers 
were wood brown without a trace of any bars, and on the lateral 
tail feathers which were a dingy umber brown, the dark brown 
bars so conspicuous in No. 1 were obscure and almost obsolete. 
The crest is slightly fuller and the white tipping broader. The 
cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of the neck have a more spotty and 
less lineated appearance than in the preceding bird. The chin 
and throat is a pure pale buff, or rufous white with the faintest 
trace of a dark brown line down the centre. The upper part of 
the breastis rufous or butly white, each feather with a conspicuous 
