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white. The rump and the upper tail- 

 coverts are barred with pale chestnut and 

 black. The tail-feathers are black with 

 the terminal portion chestnut mottled 

 with black. Each feather has a pale tip 

 and an irregular black bar in front of it. 

 The outer tail-feathers are more or less 

 white barred with black. The lesser and 

 median upper wing-coverts are brown, 

 tipped and margined with pale buff or 

 dull white. The greater coverts are 

 brown conspicuously tipped with white. 

 The outer web of the first primary is 

 white; the inner web is brown. The 

 other primaries are brown with a very 

 narrow white tip. The outer second- 

 aries are brown with a broad white tip. 

 The inner secondaries are irregularly 

 barred with black and pale chestnut. 

 The foreneck and breast are dull buff, 

 streaked with brown. The sides of the 

 body are barred with brown. The 

 abdomen and the thighs are pure 

 white ; the under tail-coverts are buff, 

 irregularly marked with black. The 

 auxiliaries are white, rather obliquely barred 

 with black; and the under wing-coverts 

 are white irregularly banded with black, 

 except on the central portion, which is 

 plain white. 



