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specimens of the bird, correctly named, and measured in the 
flesh, forwarded at the same time, the following note on its 
nidification : 
on the exterior ones, and the dark brown bands changing gradually to dull 
chestnut on the latter. A broad circle round the eye whitish. The lower 
parts from the breast downwards, and the whole wing lining (except a few of 
the longer lower coverts which are ashy grey with large white spots) pure 
white; the feathers of the abdomen with narrow, rather pale chestnut central 
streaks ; there are lanceolate chestnut dashes in the wing lining, the axillaries 
are broadly and irregularly barred with blotches, and lower tail and thigh 
coverts, have the shafts of the same colour, a few faint streaks of which are 
also generally to be seen mingling with the blue gray of the breast. 
Adult female. Forehead and a band round the eye slightly rufous 
white. Crown and occiput rufous brown, streaked with dark hair brown. 
A streak from the base of the lower mandible, widening so as to involve the 
whole ear coverts, darkish brown, in some very dark. Some of the feathers, 
commonly, very narrowly margined rufous. Back, wings, scapulars and 
central tail feathers dark umber brown, the quills and central tail feathers, 
darkest. The lateral tail feathers, paling as they recede from the central 
ones, which are unbarred, with four or five broad transverse, lighter and 
generally more rufous brown, bars, often more or less obsolete on the outer 
webs. The whole of the lower parts are light rufous buff, with narrow, 
deeper rufous, shaft stripes. Rump and upper tail coverts, mingled white, 
rufous buff and reddish brown. 
Young male of the 2nd year, (I quote this from Yarrell, I have never 
obtained a specimen in this stage) killed while undergoing his second 
moult. 
«The top of the head and the feathers round the cheeks a mixture of 
brown and rufous, ear coverts grey ; occiput varied with white ; the nape, 
back, scapulars, tertials, and upper tail coverts, lead grey ; upper surface of 
all the tail feathers, except the two in the middle, barred with shades of 
brown and rufous ; middle tail feathers, with the outer webs uniform pearl 
grey ; the inner webs with fine dark brown bands on a greyish ground ; wing 
primaries and secondaries blackish brown; greater wing coverts dark brown ; 
lesser wing coverts lighter brown, varied with rufous and two or three grey 
feathers : chin, and front of neck, pearl grey; breast, belly, thighs, and under 
tail coverts white, with a longitudinal rufous stripe on the centre of each 
feather ; under surface of tail feathers barred with greyish white and brown; 
legs, toes and claws as In the adult male.” 
A young male of the year; a narrow frontal band, a line above, and a 
patch below and behind the eye, and two broad patches on either side of the 
nape, white, the feathers of the latter with brown shafts, Chin and throat 
whitish, bristles, at point of chin black. The top of the head rusty rufous, 
the feathers, with more or less narrow, lanceolate or linear, dark brown shaft 
stripes. Har coverts and a line extending to them from the base of the 
lower mandible dark brown, the feathers mostly narrowly margined with 
ferruginous. Wings, back, and scapulars rich brown of different shades, 
palest on the upper back, rump and lesser Wing coverts, more umber on the 
secondaries and longer scapulars, and greyer, except at the extreme tips, on 
the primaries; all the quills, the primary greater coverts, back, rump, and 
scapulars, narrowly but conspicuously margined at the tips with rufous buff, 
or faintly rufous white. The lesser and most of the median coverts more 
