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brown, the rump and upper tail coverts very pure, deep, cinma~ 
mon rufous, with conspicuous white shafts. The central tail 
feathers, a slightly paler cinnamon rufous, somewhat infuscated 
towards the margins, and with freckled and mottled traces of a 
single, broad, subterminal, umber brown, transverse bar. The 
lateral tail feathers similar, but, with the subterminal bar 
somewhat better marked, and running up the outer margins 
for an inch or so, and paling on the inner webs towards the 
bases. (One specimen in this stage has two or three, much 
abraded, unmoulted feathers in the tail, these have a dirty 
yellowish white ground, tinged with cinnamon towards the tips, 
which for the terminal one inch, are dull hair brown, above 
which are traces of three or four, wavy, irregular, more or less 
mottled, quarter inch, transverse bars of the same colour.) 
The wings and scapulars are umber brown, many of the feathers 
with a purple gloss, and all the shorter scapulars, and lesser 
coverts, margined, except quite at the tips, with bright rufous, 
or in some, rufous fawn. ‘The outer webs of the second, and 
succeeding primaries, above the emarginations, are silver grey, 
tinged, and in some cases freckled, and mottled, with cinnamon 
rufous, and the white on the upper surfaces, of the inner webs of 
all the later primaries, and most of the secondaries, replaced by 
the same colour, with which even the earlier primaries are 
tinged. The ear coverts are fulvous white, each feather with a 
dull, rufous brown, shaft stripe. ‘There is a dark brown cheek 
stripe from the base of the lower mandible, running under the 
ear coverts, and this is more or less distinctly marked, in every 
stage of plumage. The chin and throat are yellowish white, 
the feathers with narrow dark brown shaft stripes. The whole 
of the breast, and upper abdomen is buffy white, the shafts 
rufous, and the feathers of the sides of the breast, with broad, 
rather pale, and somewhat brownish, rufous centres. ‘The lower 
portion of the abdomen, vent, flanks, tibial and tarsal plumes, 
rich ferruginous, deepest on the tibial plumes which are dark 
shafted, and on the lower abdomen somewhat mottled with 
rufous, or in some yellowish white. The lower tail coverts are 
white, altogether unbarred, greyish towards the tips, yellowish 
towards the bases; the axillaries, and the greater portion of the 
wing lining, bright cinnamon rufous, some of the larger lower 
coverts, however, being mingled deep brown and deep ferru- 
ginous. 
In another type, the general appearance of whose upper 
surface closely resembles that above described, the rump and 
upper tail coverts are deep purplish umber brown, only narrowly 
margined with ferruginous. ‘he central tail feathers are dull 
