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the following manner : the feathers upon the neck, 

 throat, breast, interscapulars, and sides of the body, 

 have a row of white spots down the middle of each 

 web, bordering a stripe of rufous which occupies the 

 middle of each feather ; these spots (which are 

 most distinct and denned on the interscapulars and 

 sides of the body) are bordered above by a line of 

 obscure black ; the spots become indistinct and run 

 into each other on the breast, so as to form stripes. 

 The chin and part of the throat is dirty-white, each 

 feather being nearly black in the middle. On the 

 fore part of the body, immediately beneath the breast, 

 is a large patch of pure fulvous or buff-yellow. All 

 the rest of the plumage is dark brown, without any 

 other variation than very minute and scarcely per- 

 ceptible freckles of a paler colour : the quill and 

 tail-feathers are without any bands or spots, but 

 there are a few white dots on the wing-covers, and 

 obsolete undulations on the flanks ; bill, orbits, and 

 legs, light, probably red in the live bird ; tail very 

 broad and rounded. 



Total length about 10 inches; bill, from the 

 gape, T 7 jj ; wings, 4^ ; tail, from the base, 3J ; tar- 

 sus, 1. 



