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brownish -grey, broad, incomplete, rather wavy, transverse bars,, 

 about one or two on each feather ; inner surface of the wings 

 mingled white and very pale grey, only the. terminal one-third to 

 one-half of the second to the fifth primaries blackish-brown; 

 the first to the third quills are conspicuously notched on their 

 inner webs, the second to the fourth emarginate on outer, 

 webs. 



Female. The lores dusky, covered with black bristle-like hairs, 

 as is also the point of the chin ; a patch (scarcely noticeable 

 in some specimens) over the eye, and in front of it, white, tipped 

 with brownish ; below the eye, and front of the ear-coverts, 

 somewhat purer, while a band, inside the ruff, from the base 

 of the lower mandible over the ear-coverts to the sides of the 

 nape, dark umber-brown, usually darkest towards the nape, the 

 feathers narrowly edged with rufous, and centred darker ; a dark 

 streak from the posterior corner of the eye, meeting the top of 

 this band ; forehead, and a line from the forehead over the eye, 

 and the last mentioned dark streak, nearly unstriated rufous- 

 brown ; the rest of the forehead, and top and back of the 

 head, and nape, where the ruff joins in, and back and 

 sides of the neck, rufous, the feathers all more or less broadly 

 centred with umber-brown ; the centres being larger, propor- 

 tionably, at the base of the neck ; upper back and smaller 

 scapulars umber-brown, most of the feathers usually tipped 

 with rufous ; the longest scapulars somewhat lighter colored, 

 with scarcely a trace of the rufous tipping ; middle back 

 often of a somewhat lighter brown than the upper back, and 

 the feathers with conspicuous rufous tips or margins ; rump 

 feathers slightly darker, and with somewhat less conspicuous 

 rufous tips ; upper tail-coverts pure white, with only a spot or 

 incomplete bar of dark or pale brown, or rufous, towards the tips ; 

 centre tail-feathers dark umber-brown, inconspicuously tipped 

 with grey, scarcely perceptible in some and with four or five 

 transverse grey bars, the broadest bars towards the tip ; the 

 next feather darker brown, conspicuously tipped with white or 

 rufous-white, and with one broad, and two or three narrow, pale 

 rufous, and greyish transverse bars, the rufous being chiefly next 

 the shaft ; the next feather much the same, but the white or 

 rufous (some are whiter, some more rufous) of the bar, and 

 tipping, purer, and a considerable patch at the base, on the outer 

 web, mingled white and rufous, with only a tinge of brown ; 

 the second, exterior feather, nearly pure white, or a pale rufous, 

 as the case may be, with subterminal, central, and basal bands 

 of brown, which are more or less rufous in the two latter on the 

 outer web ; the exterior feather has almost the whole outer web 

 rufous-white, and the interior more or less rufous-white, with 

 traces of a subterminal and two other bands of mingled darkish 

 rufous and brown ; the whole of the lesser wing-coverts 

 umber-brown, broadly margined with rufous or rufous-white ; 



