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the nape alone being rufous. Upon the whole, 

 however, we have little doubt that both are of the 

 same species, differing perhaps in age or sex. 



The general ground colour of the upper plumage, 

 as in most of this genus, is hair-brown, darkest on 

 the crown, where it is unspotted, and forms a patch, 

 bordered in front and on the sides by a line of 

 black ; this is again margined by another of white, 

 which commences at the nostrils and passes above the 

 eye and ear : the nape is rufous, beyond which the 

 feathers begin to be black in the middle and rufous 

 on the sides, varied also with whitish. The rufous 

 disappears on the inter scapulars, leaving only the 

 white stripes, and those extend no further than the 

 middle of the back. The chin is quite white, with- 

 out those little black spots and stripes which are on 

 the ears; the throat, breast, and body are all co- 

 loured alike ; the ground colour of each feather is 

 cream-coloured white, down the shaft is a long pear- 

 shaped black spot, inclosing a mark of dirty-white, 

 representing the letter Y, while on each side of the 

 feathers there is a broad stripe of rufous : the feathers 

 of the flanks and thighs are simply dirty-white, 

 with a brown central stripe. The primary quills are 

 blackish, dotted on the outer web with fulvous white, 

 and marked on the inner with two longitudinal 

 stripes of the same, one at the edge, the other in the 

 middle of the web. Tail very short, dark brown, 

 and freckled with a lighter tint, but without any 

 bands ; lower part of the back, the rump, and upper 

 tail-covers freckled, like the tail, with minute 



