MIRAFRA SABOTA.— Smith. 



AvES.— Plate LXXXIX, Fig. 1. (Female.) 



M. supra fusca, pluniis ferriigineo-marginatis ; infra nibro-alba, pectore l.atcribusque rubro-aiirantio- 

 tiuctis ; gutturis imo pectoreque fusco-conspersis ; alis fuscis, pennis rufo-marginatis ; rectricibus, 

 duabus mediis exceptis, pnjfundo fuscis rufo-albo-niarginatis, duabus mediis rubro-brunneis rubro- 

 auraiitio-niarginatis ; mandibulii superiore apiceque inferioris rubro-brunneis, hac versus basin 

 subflava ; pedibus subflavis carneo-tinctis. 



LoNGlTUDO 6 rostri apice ad basin caudte 3 unc. 10 lin. ; caudae 2 unc. 3 lin. 



Colour. — The feathers of the upper surface of the head, of the back 

 and sides of the neck towards the body, of the interscapular region, and of 

 the back and rump umber-brown, broadly edged and tipped with clear 

 I'eddish orange, fading at their margins into rusty white or pale wood-brown ; 

 the feathers of the back and sides of the neck, towards the nape, umber- 

 brown, narrowly edged and tipped with rusty white or cream yellow. The 

 chin, throat, breast and belly rusty white, the former and the flanks 

 tinted more or less strongly with reddish orange, and the breast, and 

 the lower part of the throat, mottled with umber-brown stripes ; thighs pale 

 reddish orange. The lesser wing coverts, the primary and secondary quill 

 coverts, and the tertiary quill feathers, umber-brown, broadly edged and 

 tipped with a colour intermediate between orpiment and reddish orange, 

 which tint, in many of the feathers, fades at the very edges into sienna-yellow 

 or rusty wood-brown ; the primary and secondary quill feathers intermediate 

 between broccoli and reddish brown, the primaries, towards the base and at the 

 point, narrowly edged externally with wood-brown, the secondaries edged 

 externally throughout and tipped with sienna-yellow or rusty white, the 

 inner vanes of both, towards the quills, pale pearl-grey. The two middle 

 tail feathers reddish brown, edged and tipped with rusty reddish orange, the 

 rest of the tail feathers umber-brown, narrowly edged and tipped with wood- 



