Sn Notes. 



nostrils narrowly ovate^ the major axis nearly perpendicular 

 to the commissure. 



The whole back, top, and sides of the head, (excluding- the 

 crest) hack and sides of the neck a pale slightly rufous brown, 

 each feather with a blackish brown shaft stripe, broad on the 

 crown, narrow elsewhere. Crest of about 20 feathers, blackish 

 brown, except at the bases which are synch romius with the 

 ground color of the head and neck. The longest feathers 

 over four inches in length, the shortest about an inch, with 

 every intermediate gradation. 



The intersciipulary region dark hair brown, with only a 

 faint trace of^ paler margins; lower back rump and upper tail 

 coverts uniform, rather pale brown ; scapulars, lesser and 

 median coverts, hair brown; margined more or less broadly 

 with pale brown, and paling- more or less above the tips on one 

 or both webs, and towards their bases. Quills and their 

 greatest covei'ts, dull brown, dai-kest (in fact blackish) on 

 the outer w^ebs and tips of the earlier primaries ; the earlier secon- 

 daries narrowly tipped with brownish white ; the secondaries 

 and later primaries, with traces of darker bars even on their 

 outer w^ebs, and the second to the seventh primary, with a decided 

 pale rufescent, or fulvous bar on the outer web, just at the 

 emargination. The edge of the wing from the carpal joint to 

 the base of the primaries, white. On the lower surface, the tips 

 of the earlier primaries, dark brow^n ; above this to the notch, 

 grey, with three well marked transverse dai-k brown bars; above 

 the notch, white; the later primaries and secondaries, greyish 

 white, with a broad subterminal, and four or five other transverse 

 dark brown bands. The lesser lower coverts, dull rufous, brown- 

 shafted, more or less white edged; the rest, white, very broadly 

 barred with deep brown. 



The chin and throat are white, with one central and two 

 lateral blackish brown streaks, which iinite at the base of the 

 throat at the front of the neck ; below this for about an inch, 

 dull rufous brow^n, like the sides and back of the neck ; the 

 breast white ; the feathers with huge dark brown drops, edged 

 paler, towards the tips. 



Sides, abdomen, lower tail coverts, flanks, and exterior tibial 

 plumes, a nearly uniform, somewhat pale, umber brown, most 

 of the feathei's, with inconspicuous very narrow, whitish tips. 

 Interior tibial plumes and tarsal feathers, pale dingy yellowish 

 brown, paling most towards the feet. 



The tail above, a dull pale brown, narrowly tipped with 

 brownish white, a 1-5 subterminal dark brown band, a two-inch 

 blank space, and three other similarly coloured 0"6 to 0-7 broad 



