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rufous-white ; crown and occiput rufous-brown, streaked with 

 dark hair-brown ; a streak from the base of the lower mandible, 

 widening so as to involve the whole ear-coverts, darkish brown, 

 in some very dark ; some of the feathers, commonly, very 

 narrowly margined rufous ; back, wings, scapulars, and central 

 tail-feathers dark umber-brown ; the quills and central 

 tail-feathers darkest ; the lateral tail-feathers paling as they 

 recede from the central ones, which are unbarred, with four 

 or five broad transverse, lighter and generally more rufous-brown 

 bars, often more or less obsolete on the outer webs ; the whole of 

 the lower parts are light rufous-buff, with narrow, deeper 

 rufous, shaft stripes ; rump and upper tail-coverts mingled 

 white, rufous-buff, and reddish-brown. 



" Young 'male of the second year killed while undergoing his 

 second moult." 



The top of the head, and the feathers round the cheeks, a 

 mixture of brown and rufous ; ear-coverts grey ; occiput varied 

 with white ; the nape, back, scapulars, tertials, and upper tail- 

 coverts lead-grey ; upper surface of all the tail-feathers, except 

 the two in the middle, barred with shades of brown and rufous ; 

 middle tail-feathers, with the outer webs, uniform pearl-grey ; the 

 inner webs with fine dark brown bands on a greyish ground ; 

 wing primaries and secondaries blackish-brown ; greater wing- 

 coverts dark browu ; lesser wing-coverts lighter brown, varied 

 with rufous and two or three grey feathers; chin, and front of 

 neck, pearl-grey ; breast, belly, thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 white, with a longitudinal rufous stripe on the centre of each 

 feather ; under surface of tail-feathers barred with greyish-white 

 and brown ; legs, toes, and claws, as in the adult male. 



A young male of the year : a narrow frontal band, a line above, 

 and a patch below and behind the eye, arid two broad patches on 

 either side of the nape white, the feathers of the latter with 

 brown shafts ; chin and throat whitish, bristles, at point of chin, 

 black ; the top of the head rusty-rufous ; the feathers with more 

 or less narrow, lanceolate or linear, dark brown shaft stripes ; 

 ear-coverts and a line extending to them from the base of the 

 lower mandible dark brown, the feathers mostly narrowly mar- 

 gined with ferruginous ; wings, back, and scapulars rich brown 

 of different shades, palest on the upper back ; rump, and lesser 

 wing-coverts, more umber on the secondaries and longer scapu- 

 lars, and greyer, except at the extreme tips, on the primaries ; 

 all the quills, the primary greater-coverts, back, rump, and scapu- 

 lars, narrowly but conspicuously margined at the tips with rufous 

 buff, or faintly rufous-white ; the lesser and most of the median- 

 coverts more broadly margined with brighter rufous. 



The first few primaries silvered on their outer webs towards 

 their bases, and with three or more irregular, dark, transverse 

 bars on the inner webs, (which are mostly brownish-white above 

 the notches), and faint traces of these on the grey-brown, outer. 



