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vermiculated with black; inner and longest scapulars have both webs 

 marked in this manner, their inner webs being the darker; last of the 

 longer scapulars with an irregular terminal spot of black; lesser wing- 

 coverts nearly black, tipped with chocolate-brown; bases of primary- 

 coverts fulvous brown, their outer webs heavily spotted with rufous-brown, 

 inner webs less so, and a subterminal bar of black crossing entire outer 

 web and half of inner web, all the feathers tipped with prominent spots 

 of creamy white; secondary-coverts like primary-coverts but the black 

 bar and white spot confined to outer web ; primaries fulvous-brown when 

 held toward light, changing to smoky brown when held away from light; 

 outer webs spotted with buffy white throughout their entire length, the 

 spots being much lighter on the second and third primaries ; tips of feath- 

 ers mottled with rufous-brown; general color of secondaries same as pri- 

 maries, their outer webs and tips being spotted with rufous-brown and 

 these spots in turn being speckled with fulvous-brown ; inner three second- 

 aries speckled with fulvous-brown, rufous-brown, and creamy white, each 

 feather with a terminal spot of fulvous ; general color of tail rufous-brown, 

 distinctly barred with lighter rufous-brown, each of these bars succeeded 

 by a narrow irregular bar of black, the entire feather thickly speckled with 

 black and each feather having a small black terminal spot; throat and 

 fore breast like sides of face ; a buffy white pectoral band continuous with 

 nuchal collar and succeeded by a second creamy white band, the feathers 

 between the two bands being brown, thickly vermiculated with black and 

 creamy white; abdomen lighter; flanks and under tail-coverts ashy, 

 slightly tinged with pinkish, some of the feathers with dark black shaft- 

 stripes, others with small terminal spots of black; under surface of tail 

 much like coverts, the black markings of upper surface showing only 

 faintly ; shafts of tail-feathers creamy white ; under wing-coverts fulvous- 

 brown, tipped with white; axillars white. Eyes pale yellow; legs, feet, 

 and nails nearly white; upper mandible brown, lower dirty green. Cul- 

 men, 27; wing, 139; tail, 105; tarsus, 15. 



"Food, beetles. Native name 'cow-cow.' The single specimen obtained 

 is a fully adult male ; its rich and complicated markings are very difficult 

 to describe. We have named it in honor of Mr. Menage." (Bourns and 

 Worcester.) 



Female. "Head and hind neck a fine mixture of black and fulvous, 

 the feathers terminally barred with broader bands of these tints, pro- 

 ducing a spotted appearance; an indistinct buff band from the forehead 

 over the eye ; elongated auriculars fulvous, banded and tipped with black ; 

 nuchal collar banded with buff, fulvous, and black; mantle and lower 

 back reddish brown, closely vermiculated with black and darker than the 

 head; upper tail-coverts similar, but more coarsely vermiculated; scap- 

 ulars plain cinnamon on the outer webs, vermiculated with black on the 

 inner webs, each feather with a subapical spot of black; wing-coverts 



