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spotted with intense brown, each spot with a more or less 

 conspicuous ferruginous or orange halo, the spots being much 

 more conspicuous on the outer web, and sparse towards the tips 

 and on the inner half of the inner web. The outer webs of 

 the secondaries have first a line of large occelli along the shafts, 

 a double black and buffy white line enclosing an oval or round- 

 ish space, tinged with olive yellow in the centre, below this 

 with a patch of white, shading into grey, and below this a dull 

 vinous tinge, wdrich tinge is repeated on the upper part of the 

 space. The interspaces between the occelli are, like the rest 

 of the whole of the ground of the outer web, dark brown, 

 varied with irregular zig-zagy buffy bands. From the outer edge 

 of each occellum runs, slanting down to the outer edge of the 

 feather, a narrow pinkish creamy band ; as these bands approach 

 the edge of the feather they throw out cusp-like points from 

 either side, which, on the outer part of the web, develop and 

 meet the corresponding cusp from the next band, thus divid- 

 ing the ground on this part of the feather into rows of 

 closely-set oval spots ; the tips of the secondaries aud the visible 

 portion of the tertiaries (for these also have modified occelli 

 higher up) are also blackish brown, closely set with white 

 spots of varying sizes, alwaj^s much smallest just at the tip, 

 in between which, except just at the tips, run narrow lines, more 

 or less obsolete, of pale reddish brown, which form an irregu- 

 lar net-work, all the larger white spots being as it were in the 

 middle of a mesh ; the longer upper tail-coverts are white 

 with closely-set rows of more or less figure-of-three-shaped 

 spots, the outer line of the spot black, the central portion pale 

 refescent ; the lateral tail feathers are deep brown, with a slaty 

 tinge closely starred with white ; the interspaces tinged with 

 rufous towards the tips ; the longer tail feathers have the 

 inner webs grey, the outer webs dusky along the shafts, and 

 a sort of dull brownish maroon on the outer two-thirds of the 

 web, everywhere, except on the dusky portion, where they 

 are sparse or wanting, thickly set with white spots surrounded 

 by a blackish band, broadest aud most conspicuous on the outer 

 webs ; entire breast and abdomen black, broadly banded with 

 deep ferruginous in wavy bands, following approximately the 

 curve of the feather, and with in many cases in many feathers 

 near the tips, narrower orange buff bands replacing the deep 

 ferruginous ; vent feathers dusky brown, obsoletely and very 

 finely barred with ferruginous ; lower tail-coverts black, with 

 very fine speckly irregular white lines ; tibial plumes much 

 like the breast; some of the flank feathers more regularly 

 transversely barred ; a small patch at the base of the neck in 

 front often deep ferruginous, almost unbarred. 



