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spaces being clouded with coarse brown verniiculations, especi- 

 ally towards the' tip ; the innermost secondaries very much 

 clouded with brown mottlings, and distinctly barred across with 

 blackish brown ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 

 with a few indistinct wavy lines of blackish brown, rather 

 more distinct and strongly characterized on the upper tail- 

 coverts ; tail yellowish buff, whitish at tip and regularly barred 

 with dark brown, of which about eight bars (some partly 

 broken up) can be distinguished on the outer feathers, the two 

 centre ones more dusky than the rest, and crossed with six or 

 seven bands of dusky brown, often much dissolved and mingled 

 with the interspaces, which are thickly mottled and vermiculat- 

 ed with brown ; lores and feathers round the eye white, the 

 former black at the tip of the shafts ; just above the eye a patch 

 of black feathers, continued to, and appearing to form part of, 

 the ear-tufts which are 3*2 inches long, and black with tawny 

 bases ; the long feathers uniform yellowish buff on the inner 

 web, and barred with black near the base of the outer ; ear- 

 coverts dull fulvous, with indistinct brown cross-barrings ; chin 

 pure white ; the throat encircled by a row of slightly recurved 

 feathers, yellowish buff, streaked down the centre with black, 

 and also laterally barred with narrow lines of the same, exact- 

 ly resembling the plumes on the sides of the neck, of which 

 this gular band seems a continuation ; rest of under surface 

 white, slightly washed here and there with yellowish ; the breast 

 feathers broadly streaked down the centre with black, all these 

 feathers slightly varied with lateral verniiculations of brown ; 

 the central streaks reduced to a narrow shaft line on the abdo- 

 minal feathers and flanks, these being, however, finely but 

 regularly barred across with dark brown, disappearing on the 

 under tail-coverts ; crop covered with tawny down, succeeded 

 by a patch of pure white feathers in the centre of the breast ; 

 leg feathers buffy white, with a few remains of brown zio--zao- 



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bars on the outer aspect ; under wing-coverts pure white, here 

 and there washed with yellowish , the outermost slightly marked 

 with irregular lines of brown ; the axillaries being also crossed 

 with narrow lines of the same ; lower series ashy brown, yel- 

 lowish buff at base, forming a bar across the wing ; inner 

 lining of quills for the most part orange buff, with a few dis- 

 tinct brown bars on the inner web, disappearing towards the 

 tip of the quills, which are there dusky brown. Total length, 

 26 inches ; wing, 19 ; tail, 11*2 ; tarsus, 3'4. 



Observations. — This bird, if not quite specifically distinct from 

 B. ignavus, undoubtedly constitutes a well-marked race of that 

 species. It is a very much paler bird both above aud below, 

 being especially white on the under surface, the cross barrings 



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