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texture, the nests differ much, some are compactly and neatly, 
others loosely and carelessly put together, but all are more or 
lighter brown, with five or six narrow wavy bars of a still lighter colour, then 
a half or three quarter inch of the same dark brown as the subterminal band, 
then another inch and a half of the paler brown, with two or three of the 
still lighter wavy bars, and then just under the tips of the upper tail coverts, 
another half or three quarter inch, darker brown band. Many of the birds 
have three or four, somewhat lengthened, black brown feathers on the neck, 
margined with the same colour as the rest of the head, which form a sort of 
incipient crest. Laying six or seven, well chosen specimens, of the above 
described type, varying but little except in their shades of colour, beside each 
other, these shades of colour differ so extraordinarily, that one might almost 
believe that specimens of the creamy, white-breasted kind had been dipped in 
a series of dyes of every shade, trom the most delicate fawn, to the deepest 
burnt sienna. 
There is, however, a somewhat different type. The crown is brown, the 
feathers with very dark central stripes, a broad supercillium, the ear coverts 
and the sides and back of the neck are pale, somewhat rufous brown, the 
feathers dark shafted, and those towards the base of the neck broadly cen- 
tered with very dark brown. The whole of the scapulars, upper back, wing 
coverts, secondaries and tertiaries very dark brown, the back less dark, and the 
upper tail coverts light brown, the tail of the ordinary type, above described, 
but altogether much darker. The grey of the lores and eye streak more ashy, 
the chin, throat, and upper neck nearly pure white, only slightly tinged with 
fulvous and no dark shafts; a row of feathers on each side of the lower por- 
tion of this pale patch, conspicuously tipped with black brown. The breast 
somewhat pale rufous, or rufous brown, all the feathers with dark brown, 
linear, central stripes. The whole of the rest of the lower parts nearly uni- 
form fawn, with scarcely a trace of dark shafting to the feathers. The wing 
lining and the axillaries the same tint as the breast, not dark shafted, but the 
axillaries distinctly banded with a lighter tint, 
In the old bird the tail has the usual white tip, then a two inch band of 
dark brown, then a similar space of lighter brown, freckled (not barred), with 
a still paler colour, then another two inch, dark brown band, then an inch or 
so of the lighter freckled or mottled brown, and then another dark brown 
band showing just under the upper tail coverts. 
In the primaries at all ages, the inner web is white, or nearly so, above the 
emarginations, with some few pale brown spots or incomplete bars. Beyond 
the emarginations in the old bird, there is a white tip, two dark, and one light 
bar, exactly as above described in the tail,which though most conspicuous below, 
are very visible above, but in younger birds, the dark portion of the primaries 
are clouded and indistinctly barred like their tails, this barring being often 
scarcely visible above. In some specimens, as in that first described, scarcely 
any barring or clouding is visible, even beneath. The secondaries and tertia- 
ries are usually, at all ages, very faintly barred witha slightly lighter shade, 
and this is most visible when the bird has recently moulted. In some birds 
whilst the head, neck, and ear coverts are a dark rufous brown, darker cen- 
tered, and the rest of the upper parts a very dark brown, the chin, throat, 
breast, and abdomen are pure white, most of the feathers of the two former 
dark shafted, and the two latter with large, subterminal, dark brown lunules, 
each set in a round spot of somewhat pale rufous brown, and the axillaries, 
thigh and lower tail coverts are broadly, though regularly banded, with this 
jatter colour. In some birds, the lesser wing coverts are so broadly mar- 
