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inch shorter than the third, first two slightly cut out near the end of 

 the inner web : lesser coverts very similar to the back ; greater coverts 

 white, irregularly barred with light grayish brown ; first primary white, 

 marked with dark grayish brown upon each side of the shaft; towards 

 the tip of the inner web the brown projects into the white in a slightly 

 bar-like form ; remaining primaries the same, but with the brown 

 occupying more space, and that on the outer webs gradually becoming 

 more distinctly spotted with white on those feathers nearest the body ; 

 in these the white has a faint rusty tinge ; the tips of all white, nar- 

 rowed on the outer ones, the shafts dark brown. Secondaries and ter- 

 tials white, barred with grayish brown ; in some the bars are continuous 

 across the feather, in others alternate ; under wing-coverts white, with 

 a few long fine streaks of very dark brown. 



Tail. — Upper surface of the shafts white towards the base, dark 

 brown on the remaining part, the under surface white throughout the 

 whole length ; middle jiair of feathers white, each with eleven bars of 

 dark grayish brown, the one nearest the tip considerably lengthened 

 out along the shaft; on the feather helonyintj to the right side the< 

 bars are conlinnous, on the left one all are alternate except the two 

 nearest the tip ; next feather on each side barred on the basal two- 

 thirds of the outer web, and with some irregular brownish mottlings 

 upon the outer edge ; in the remaining feathers the bars become more 

 and more reduced to spots, except in the outer one of each side, where 

 they again become lengthened out, and show a disposition to spread 

 across the inner web. 



Under Surface. — Chin, throat and upper half of the front of the neck 

 white ; abdomen, under tail-coverts and under side of the tail also 

 white ; remainder of under surface white, with dark brown sagittiform 

 spots, much elongated and few in number upon the sides, rather more 

 numerous, shorter and paler on the middle of the breast, shortest and 

 broadest on the lower part and sides of the neck and on the sides of 

 the breast. 



Legs and Feet. — Tibial feathers white, with a few dark brown 

 streaks on the outer side ; these feathers are so long that when the leg 

 is stretched out in the same line with the body they reach beyond the 

 insertion of the toes ; tarsus bare posteriorly, covered with white 

 feathers on two-thirds of its length anteriorly; feet and bare pari of 

 tarsus pale bluish gray (drying to pinkish brown) ; claws very dark 

 horn-colour, but not black. 



I have endeavoured to describe the above specimen as minutely as 



