BIRDS OF TENASSEMM. 13 



Adult (?) maU. — Length, 21*5 ; tail, 10-0; wing, 12*6; tarsus, 

 295 ; bill from gape, 1*49 ; along culmen from edge of cere, 1*12. 



The young bird has the entire under surface white, tinged 

 ■with dull fawn color, most strongly on the middle of the abdo- 

 men ; a patch of brownish feathers on the side ; a trace of a 

 dusky throat stripe (the throat being nearly pure whitej and no 

 other markings on the lower surface ; ear-coverts and sides of 

 neck pale brown. 



Top of the head, the feathers dingy white, brownish towards 

 their tips ; a few of the feathers blackish dusky towards their 

 tips; on the occiput, a crest of four black feathers, narrowly 

 tipped with sordid white, the longest 18 in length. 



Primaries blackish brown, white on their bases on the inner 

 webs above the emarginations ; inner webs with numerous broad 

 widely separated blackish transverse bars, the bars imperfect 

 towards their bases ; entire mantle, back, scapulars, tertiaries, 

 wing and upper tail-coverts lightish brown of varying shades ; 

 all the feathers margined whitish at their tips. 



Some the feathers of the interscapulary region and 

 the lesser coverts along the ulna much darker brown ; tail 

 feathers lightish brown, narrowly margined at tips,, with sordid 

 white, with broad blackish brown ill-defined subterminal bars, 

 and three other similar much narrower bars on their basal 

 halves, the upper one hidden by the coverts, scarcely traceable 

 on the outer webs of the lateral feathers ; under surface of 

 the tail greyish white showing these bars more strongly. 



The first five primaries notched on the inner webs, the sixth 

 with a trace of the same, second to seventh emarginate on the 

 outer webs, and pale brown just at the emarginations. 



The old bird has the crown and occiput nearly black, a 

 little mingled with reddish brown ; the lores sparsely covered 

 with minute white feathers ; the feathers of the sides of the 

 crown, occiput and neck ferruginous brown, black centered ; 

 ear-coverts paler ferruginous brown, dark shafted ; feathers 

 of the chin, throat and base of the lower mandible white ; 

 an irregular central black throat stripe ; feathers of the 

 chin, and sides of the throat and about base of lower 

 mandible with black shaft stripes ; breast white, mottled 

 and tinged with ferruginous fawn, each feather with a very 

 broad black central stripe ; abdomen, sides, flanks, tibial and 

 tarsal plumes and lower tail-coverts white, the former a good deal 

 tinged with rusty fawn, all these parts with regular transverse 

 blackish brown bars, closest and narrowest on flanks, tibial and 

 tarsal plumes ; interscapulary region, lesser coverts, and lesser sca- 

 pulars almost black, as are the outer webs of the earlier primaries. 



Tail clear ash brown, tipped paler, a 1'5 subterminal and three 

 other TO inch blackish brown transverse bands, the third 



