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with tawny buff; all tbe bars very minutely dotted with black 

 on the outer web ; the inner web for the most part tawny, most 

 irregularly mottled with wavy lines, dots, and markings of 

 black ; the secondaries not so distinctly barred with tawny 

 buff; all the lighter spots on the outer web obscured by minute 

 spots aud markings of dark brown ; the inner webs much more 

 plainly barred with tawny ; none of these bars, however, being 

 without brown vermiculatious ; the innermost secondaries black- 

 ish, mottled with fulvous all over ; the tip whitish, as also of the 

 secondaries ; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts more 

 tawny than the back, the former coarsely barred, and the 

 latter vermiculated with blackish, especially on the tail-coverts, 

 which are whitish at tip ; tail brown, the centre feathers vermi- 

 culated all round the margins with fulvous, and having three 

 or four irregularly indicated bands, consisting of a few whitish 

 spots of irregular shape ; all the other feathers more or less 

 distinctly barred with deep-tawny buff; the inner wets for 

 the most part bright tawny, with irregular lines of blackish, 

 more thickly distributed towards the tips of the feathers, 

 which are here thickly, though minutely, spotted with brown, 

 as are all the tawny bands on the other webs ; lores and feathers 

 in front of and below the eye whitish, with narrow blackish 

 shaft-lines; above the eye a patch of black feathers; sides of 

 face dull tawny, irrorated with narrow circular bars of brown ; 

 sides of neck coloured like the hind neck, but less strongly 

 marked ; chin pure white, as also the foreneck, separated from 

 each other by a narrow cordon of tawny feathers centered 

 with black, and having small lateral bars of the same ; crop 

 covered with tawny buff down, succeeded by a patch of white 

 feathers in the centre of the breast ; rest of under surface of 

 body light tawny buff, most of the feathers with a slight 

 glistening of silvery white, all of the chest-feathers very broad- 

 ly streaked down the centre with black, and likewise laterally 

 spotted or barred with irregular lines of black, these central 

 black streaks much narrower on the breast and abdomen, 

 which are likewise very regularly, though narrowly, barred 

 across with blackish ; under tail-coverts deep tawny, barred 

 across with narrow lines of black ; leg-feathers deep tawny, 

 with irregular transverse washings of blackish ; under wing- 

 coverts tawny, the inner ones whitish, with narrow zig-zag cross 

 lines of black ; the lower series brown, tawny at base ; inner 

 lining of wing dull brown, barred with tawny buff on inner 

 webs, most of the quills entirely tawny buff at base of the 

 latter, more or less minutely speckled with brown ; bill and claws 

 blackish horn-colour ; iris rich orange. Total length, 26 inches ; 

 wing, 18-6; tail, 11*2 ; tarsus, 32. 



