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"which have rather large white spots on the outer- web ; the me- 

 dian coverts coarsely vermiculated with sandy bun ; the feathers 

 with blackish shaft-streaks ; the least series rufous with obscure 

 blackish cross-vermieulations ; the outermost of the greater 

 series and the primary coverts strongly rufescent, almost chest- 

 nut in tone, the latter finely vermiculated with blackish ; inner- 

 most secondary quills coloured like the back, and finely vermi- 

 culated in the same manner, their centres streaked with dusky 

 blackish along the shaft ; the rest of the quills rufous, barred 

 with dusky brown, these bars more or less vermiculated ; the 

 inner webs almost entirely dusky-brown, barred with pale ru- 

 fous, inclining to yellowish on the inner web ; the rufous bars 

 on the outer web of the primaries inclining to white, and pro- 

 ducing a somewhat chequered appearance ; upper tail-coverts 

 exactly like the back, the centre tail-feathers likewise strongly 

 resembling the upper surface, inasmuch as they are without 

 any distinct trace of cross bars ; the outer feathers dark-brown, 

 vermiculated with sandy rufous, and crossed with seven bars 

 of rufous ; the subterminal one very indistinct, and lost in the 

 vermiculations at the tips ; the light bars inclining to white on 

 the outer edge of the external webs ; loral plumes whitish, the 

 shafts black, and produced into long hair-like bristles ; feathers 

 over the eye buffy white, tipped with blackish ; sides of face 

 dusky grey, indistinctly varied with fine cross lines of dull 

 brown ; behind the ear-coverts a tolerably distinct ruff of orano-e- 

 buff feathers, broadly tipped with black ; this ruff extending 

 across the throat, but the feathers here finely barred with 

 blackish ; chin-feathers dull white ; chest dull orange-buff 

 the feathers broadly centred with black and crossed with a few 

 narrow zig-zag lines of brown, and vermiculated with the same 

 at the tips, many of the feathers inclining to white ; on the 

 breast and the rest of the lower parts the white predominates 

 many of the feathers only having a few zig-zag markino-s of 

 brown, on many of them a strong tinge of rufous with broad 

 black central streaks ; some of the flank-feathers slightly washed 

 with grey; under tail-coverts almost entirely white, excepting 

 a narrow-shaped mark of rufous or brown near the tip; le<rl 

 feathers buffy white ; the tarsus slightly streaked with brown • 

 under wing-coverts fulvous, those near the edge of the wino- 

 mottled with brown ; the lower series ashy-brown with yellowish 

 white bases ; the quills being also ashy-brown below, but in- 

 clining to rufous near the tips; the bands being entirely of this 

 colour, and fulvous only near the base of the inner webs. 

 Total length, 8 inches ; wing, 5*1 ; tail, 2 - 7 ; tarsus, 0'85. 

 Hdb. — Eastern Ghauts. — Sharpe's Catalogue. 



