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are of the same fulvous-brown as the back, but 

 darker, the middle of each feather having a blackish 

 line ; the whole are separated by an obsolete black 

 band. The second range of the lesser covers become 

 suddenly very light, and the black stripes are longer 

 and fewer; the greater covers are cream-coloured 

 white, with rather a broad band of black near their 

 tips, and which leaves a narrow white line on their 

 outer edge ; lesser quills entirely black. The greater 

 quills are also black, but the seventh, eighth, and 

 ninth are white at their base and tips, and the first, 

 second, and third white nearly to their middle; 

 these white spots are very unequal in size, and they 

 extend to both webs. The lateral tail-feathers are 

 all white, with broad black tips, and most of them 

 have crescent- shaped bands on their basal half; 

 these bands disappear as they approach the middle 

 pair, which are brown and unspotted. Under tail- 

 covers fawn-coloured ; the first quill is rather shorter 

 than the second and third. 



Total length about ] 3 inches ; bill, from the gape, 

 2 T 2 5 ; ditto from the front, 1|; wings, 8; tarsus, 2^ ; 

 middle toe, 1| ; inner toe shortest. 



