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on the breast are fully 0°3; while again, in what I take to 
be the oldest adults, the broadest breast stripes do not exceed 
0:15. These differences, however, may perhaps be individual. 
Anyhow where the breast stripes are broadest, there the stripes 
of the rest of the lower parts are most strongly marked; and 
where the breast stripes are very narrow, there the stripes 
are almost obsolete on the lower abdomen, flanks, and lower 
tail coverts. 
The ear-tufts are very long. In some specimens nearly 
three inches in length. These, with the whole of the 
feathers of the head, upper back, and _ interscapulary 
region, are dark, almost blackish brown, margined with buff. 
The width of these margins varies greatly in different speci- 
mens, as does also the tint ; in some they are a clear pale buff, 
and in others redder and more ferruginous ; and, I should 
perhaps here note, that in some specimens the under-surface 
also has a decided rusty tinge, especially on the breast. 
The scapulars and lesser wing coverts are somewhat similar 
to the feathers of the nape and upper back, but they mostly 
want the buff edgings, though paling in patches towards the 
margins, and they are more or less distinctly characterized by 
imperfect, transverse yellowish-white bars, which in many 
specimens are reduced to moderate-sized spots, one on either 
web. 
The rump and upper tail coverts vary extraordinarily in 
different specimens, but typically they are buffy, or buffy- 
brown, or fawn brown, with a dark brown patch at the tips, 
fringed marginally with buff, and with a few paler spots here 
and there, representing more or less imperfect transverse bars. 
The tail feathers are deep brown, more or less broadly tipped with 
yellowish or buffy white, and. with, in the adult, three trans- 
verse bars of the same color, the third of which is partially 
hidden by the upper tail coverts; but some specimens, appa- 
rently adult, also have four such transverse bars, in which case 
it is the fourth which is partially hidden by the tail coverts ; 
and one quite young bird, clearly the youngest specimen I 
have, has five such bars, besides the pale tippings. 
The quills and their greater coverts are dark brown, broadly 
banded and tipped, paler on both webs, the banding on the 
outer webs and tippings being yellowish white, pale buff, or 
bright buff, and on the inner webs being a pale erevish or 
yellowish brown. ‘The size and color of all these markings 
varies in every individual, but the banding is always, I think, 
broadest on the primaries, and narrowest on the tertiaries. 
The lores are densely clad with large bristle-like feathers, 
paler, indeed sometimes whitish, at their bases, blackish for 
