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nape^ and back of neck dark brown, bvoadlj margined with 

 rufous buff, and a g-ood deal of white showing- as usual in such 

 birds on the nape ; interscapulary region^ a somewhat lig-hter 

 brown and less broadly margined with rufescent buff; rest of 

 back, rump, and upper tail coverts, dark hair brown, the longer 

 coverts broadly tipped with pale rufous buff, and on the featliers 

 being lifted showing several oblong- spots or imperfect bai-s, 

 almost exclusively on the outer webs, which are buffy or rufous 

 towards the tips, and more neaily white at the bases. The tail 

 has the central feathers pale dull brown, g-reyish towards the 

 centre, tipped for about O'l, with pale rufescent or dingy buff, 

 with three complete, and traces of two or three other, rather narrow 

 hair brown transverse bands, the interspjices between the perfect 

 bars being- in the immediate neighl)ourhood of the shafts, strong- 

 ly tinged with buff. The shafts are white except from where 

 they enter the subtermiual brown bar (which is the bi'oadest 

 and about 0-6 wide at the shaft) whence they are brown. The 

 outer webs of the lateral tail feathers are similar, but have the 

 tippings broader and more rufous and' the interspaces more 

 strongly rufous, while except just at the tips, their inner webs 

 have a greyish Avhite ground. The central tail feathers are 2 "25 

 broad, and are a good inch longer than the exterior pair. 



The upper throat and sides of the neck are, a warm bright 

 brown, the feathers huffy at their bases and more or less broadly 

 margined with buff. 



The base of the throat, the whole breast, abdomen, vent, and 

 lower tail coverts, white, with here and there a bright buffy tinge, 

 and a few of the feathers of the- sides of the breast a more de- 

 cided rufous buff, with in some broad, in some narrow, rufous 

 brown shaft patches or sti'eaks towards the tips. The sides 

 of the abdomen, a rich rufous brown, the feathers nurrowl}'- 

 margined brighter rufous. The tibial plumes, which are very 

 long, reaching down quite to the bifurcation of the toes, 

 and the short close feathers of the front and sides of the tarsi 

 similar, but somewhat darker. The foot is finely reticulate. 

 The greater part of the back of the tarsus is covered with broad 

 transverse plates, but the upper part near the joint, and the 

 latter, are reticulate. The wings are long, and appear to reach, 

 veri/ nearl}^, if not quite, to the end of the tail. The ed^^e of 

 the wing is white, the lesser lower coverts and axillaries, rufes- 

 cent white, here aad there strongly tinged with rufous buff, 

 and here and there streaked, or again imperfectly barred wnth 

 brown. The median lower wing coverts a deep brown, with 

 some bright rufous patches towards the tips and the largest 

 coverts, g-rey brown. The first four quills are strongly notched 



