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very broad, subterminal, blackish brown band, beyond whicle, 
there is a narrow, pale tipping, and above which, there are five 
other, somewhat irregular, and wavy, transverse, dark-brown 
bars; the grey becoming albescent, on the inner webs of the 
lateral tail feathers. In all specimens, both of this, and the 
Canescens type, the bases of the primaries, I may mention, are 
white, forming a very large and conspicuous pure white patch, 
on the lower surface of the wing. 
In another form of my supposed Fudiginosus, the whole head, 
neck, chin, throat, and breast, may be said to be a rich, deep 
rufous, broadly centred with umber brown. The rest of the 
lower parts, are an excessively rich, deep, umber brown, with 
here and there, rufous white spots, or imperfect bars, most con- 
spicuous and numerous on the lower tail coverts. 
The upper surface is a darker brown even than that of the 
first form described, and the longer upper tail coverts, are con- 
spicuously tipped with rufous, while the tail feathers are much 
tinged with rufous towards the tip, have the terminal bar con- 
siderably reduced in width, the grey ground more albescent, 
and the other bars more or less obsolete. 
I have one specimen which appears to be intermediate, 
between Fudiginosus and Canescens, the tail is precisely similar 
to that first described, as typical of Fudiginosus, but the whole of 
the rest of the upper surface, is that of the uniform, dull, earth 
brown stage, of Canescens ; the lower surface, however, is unlike 
any of those which I have described as Canescens. It has the 
ehin and throat yellowish white, with brown central stripes, 
but the whole of the rest of the lower surface, a very dull, rather 
pale, umber brown, more or less margined on the breast, with 
rufous. 
There are other specimens again, more or less intermediate 
between this example and the typical uliginosus, and though 
I can express no positive opinion on the subject as yet, my con- 
viction is, founded chiefly on their perfect structural identity, 
that both the dark and light forms, (udiginosus and Canescens } 
must be referred to one and the same species. 
