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orange ; the tufts on the head contain seven or eight dark- 

 coloured feathers, with light brown bars on the inner webs ; 

 the head, neck, and back, a mixture of reddish brown and 

 dark brown, the darker colour occupying the centre of 

 each feather, forming streaks ; the other parts of the web 

 mottled ; wing-primaries and tail feathers similar in colour, 

 but barred transversely; the feathers of the facial disk 

 light brown speckled with greyish black, those under 

 the disk white ; breast pale brown ; with longitudinal 

 patches of dark brown ; belly, under tail-coverts, thighs, 

 legs, and toes, pale brown ; with numerous narrow trans- 

 verse bars of dark brown ; under surface of tail-feathers 

 dusky brown, barred with pale brown ; claws long, curved 

 and black. The whole length of a specimen is from 

 twenty -four to twenty-eight inches, the difference depend- 

 ing upon sex and age. Two preserved specimens of 

 females in the Museum of the Zoological Society are 

 darker in the general colour of their plumage than a male 

 in the same collection, and both have the throat white. 

 They are old birds. 



