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of the feathers. The axillaries are white, 

 coarsely barred with brown. The under 

 wing-coverts are brown, margined with 

 white. The mantle, the back and the 

 scapulars are dark brown or black, barred 

 with undulating or curved bands of ful- 

 vous. The rump and upper tail-coverts 

 are black, each feather margined with 

 pale fulvous or fulvous white at the 

 sides, but not at the extreme tip. The 

 tail-feathers are dark brown, diagonally 

 barred with fulvous and edged paler. The 

 upper wing-coverts are blackish, narrowly 

 margined with pale fulvous, the lower 

 series conspicuously tipped with white, 

 the tips forming a band. The primaries 

 are dark brown on the outer web and the 

 tip of the inner, light drab on the inner 

 web. The outer secondaries are mottled 

 black and brown, with some admixture of 

 fulvous, and broadly tipped with white. 

 The inner, long secondaries are brown, 

 margined with fulvous. 



Young birds, of both sexes, moult into 

 the plumage of the adult female, and the 

 young males ^soon commence to show 

 signs of the adult male plumage. 



Male : length about 25 ; wing about 11 ; 

 tail 7|. Female: length about 21 ; wing 

 about 9^ ; tail 45. In the male, the bill 



