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broken wliite vermiculations just above the margin. The 

 primaries are dark brown ; the secondaries black, with a few 

 white specks on the margins of the outer webs of the outer- 

 most feathers. The upper wing-coverts are black, a few 

 of the lesser coverts with white shaft-streaks ; the inner 

 median and greater coverts with a very narrow but con- 

 spicuous white margin. The middle tail-feathers are 

 diagonally marked with equal bands of black and white, 

 the margin of the inner web being plain white. The next 

 feather is black, everywhere banded narrowly with white. 

 The next is black, sparingly marked with broken bars of 

 white. The next, again, is black with a little white at the 

 base only. The four outer feathers are plain black. The 

 upper tail-coverts are black, covered with broken wliite bands 

 more or less parallel to the margin. 



Length of wing 10 inches, of tail nearly 16 inches. The 

 legs are brown. 



A young male, with the spurs half-grown, has the plumage 

 of tiie same character as the bird just described, but differing 

 in some details. The streaks on the mantle are large and 

 triangular, extending in some cases to nearly the whole of the 

 feather, and the white much broken up. The upper wing- 

 coverts are speckled with white, and the white margin to the 

 inner median and greater coverts is indistinct. The visible 

 portions of the rump-feathers are black with a broader white 

 margin, but lacking the broken white vermiculations above 

 the margin. On the other hand, there is much white 

 speckling on the concealed portions of the feathers. The 

 middle tail-feathers, which have only a very slight curl 

 oulwards, are black, very sparingly banded wilh white. 

 Tlie next three are still more sparingly marked and the outer 

 lour are entirely black. 



Length of wing 9'5 inches, of tail nearly 10 inches. The 

 legs are of a brownish flesh-colour. 



The female has the upper plumage and wing-coverts of a 

 russet-brown colour, each feather vermiculated with black, 

 the shaft and the margin much paler, some of the inner 

 median and greater coverts with a black patch or large spot 

 near the tip of one or both webs. The primaries are brown; 

 the secondaries brown vermiculated with black and mottled 

 with rufous, the iimermost w^th a black patch near tlie tip of 

 the outer webs. The middle tail-feathers are dull chestnut 

 on the inner web, vermiculated with black ; and black on the 

 outer web, vermiculated with chestnut on the margin. The 

 other tail-feathers are all black. The lower plumage is 

 black, the maigins of the feathers pale brown. Each feather 



