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whole upper parts, including the wings and tail, 

 have a ground shade of ochraceous yellow, with 

 the centre of the feathers black, which broadens 

 at the tips, and at the sides is shaded off in light 

 wary mottles of a similar tint. On the greater 

 coverts and secondaries the markings assume the 

 form of indistinct bars from their greater crowding, 

 while along the shaft the dark colour is con- 

 tinuous. The quills on the inner webs are of a 

 brighter tint of ochraceous, and are there crossed 

 with distinct narrow bars of black ; on the outer 

 w r ebs, the bars, though distinct, are yellowish 

 brown, clouded with a darker shade, and gene- 

 rally edged next the ground colour with an irre- 

 gular darker margin; towards the tips the dark 

 colour predominates, and is there mingled' with 

 gray. The ground colour of the tail is paler 

 than that of. the quills, and it is crossed with 

 mottled bars of brownish black ; the pale spaces 

 towards the tips, and on the centre feathers, being 

 also thinly mottled ; on the inner webs the bars 

 are very narrow. When viewed from the lower 

 side it is much paler in colour, the bars appear all 

 narrow, and the mottling on the intermediate 

 spaces scarcely appears. On the under parts of the 

 body the same ochraceous tint prevails ; the chin is 

 white; on the throat, breast, and belly, the feathers 

 are broadly streaked with black, which breaks off 

 to the sides in interrupted bars; on the other 



