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and from behind it to the upper ear coverts. Below this band, beginning 

 at the base of the lower mandible is another sandy cream colored band, 

 which becomes defined below the eye by a blackish brown band across 

 the lower auricular region. 



Neck: All clear sandy cream, unmarked on the chin, and with a 

 streaked and mottled appearance elsewhere, each feather having a blackish 

 brown median area varying somewhat in shape and extent on the different 

 parts of the neck. 



Back : Outer scapular region black or deep velvety blackish brown, 

 the feathers marked and notched with rusty. The back is further deco- 

 rated by two broad lines of creamy buff, formed by the broad edging of 

 the scapulars in that color. The scapulars are black otherwise, dotted, 

 notched, and in parts almost barred with rusty. Lower back dusky, the 

 feathers inclined to be filamentous, and being fringed with isabelline, 

 cream buff and sandy, has a barred or mottled appearance. Upper 

 tail coverts, rusty, narrowly barred in arrow shape with blackish, leav- 

 ing rusty areas at least four times as wide as the dusky bars. Termi- 

 nally the upper tail coverts are creamy or isabelline. Tail of sixteen 

 feathers, black at the base, then becoming droac//y rusty red with an arrow- 

 shaped subterminal bar of black, the rusty after this subterminal black bar 

 shading into creamy buff, almost white tipping each feather. The feathers 

 gradually become lighter in color and more barred toward the outer sets. 



Fig 171. 



Galinago paragtiayce. Showing tail pattern. From a bird in the British Museum. Natural size. 



