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or less cuneiform, transverse black bars ; the lower tail coverts are 

 chestnut, most of them in some birds with a small black spot on 

 each web near the tip. The wing lining- and axillaries are 

 closely -barred white or fulvous white, and darker or lighter brown. 



The male has spurs from - 3 to 0*4 inch in length ; the bill, 

 black; and the legs, dull, pale, brownish orange. 



The bird sent as a female, possibly a young male, is somewhat 

 similar, but has the lower mandible a livid horny, has the black 

 eye streak much less developed, and not prolonged to the nostrils ; 

 the gape stripe also less well marked, the white of the throat, 

 ear coverts, &c, generally more rufescent, and the whole of the 

 feathers, which in the adult male are so conspicuously marked with 

 oval spots, are here regularly and somewhat closely barred black and 

 fulvous white; there is only a tinge of rufous on the shorter scapu- 

 lars, and the whole back and upper tail coverts are olive brown, 

 indistinctly margined paler, and pencilled with wavy speckled 

 bars formed of tiny greyish white and blackish brown dots ; 

 the scapulars and some of the feathers of the upper back with 

 conspicuous yellowish white shafts. 



Another bird sent as a young female, but which I take to be 

 the adult female, has the chin and throat white ; the lores, a 

 stripe above the eye, cheeks, and ear coverts, pale rufous, with 

 a few tiny brown speckles where the gape stripe in the male 

 would run ; crown, occiput, and nape, dark brown, the feathers, 

 everywhere margined with dull rufescent ; the breast white, here 

 and there tinged with rufescent, with regular blackish-brown 

 bars, which, as the feathers approach the abdomen, become more 

 or less cuneiform ; the bars on the flanks and sides broader, and 

 the feathers more tinged with rufous buff ; the feathers of the 

 back of the neck, dark brown at the base, olive-brown towards 

 the tip, with small white or rufous white double spots spring- 

 ing from the shafts, which towards the tips are pale. Scapulars 

 and interscapulary region and tertiaries, deep brown at the bases, 

 with conspicuous yellow shafts, tipped and margined olive brown, 

 freckled and pencilled inside the margins towards the tips with 

 pale rufous, and with one or more irregular, narrow, transverse 

 bars of the same color. Lower back, rump, and upper tail 

 coverts, deep brown towards the base ( very little of which, how- 

 ever, is visible until the feathers are lifted) , very narrowly tipped 

 and margined greyish, and everywhere freckled and pencilled" 

 towards the tips with a pale olive brown or rufescent olive. 

 The wing coverts are much like the breast. 



There is generally a chestnut tinge on some of the scapulars 

 towards the tips. The lower tail coverts are bay or dull chestnut, 

 many of them with traces of an imperfect, cuneiform, blackish 

 brown bar near the tip. The quills are as in the male, but the 

 markings are somewhat smaller. 



