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scapulars are a rich dark brown, with a decided purplish gloss. 

 All the feathers with an excessively narrow marginal rufescent 

 or fulvous fringe ; on raising the feathers the rich brown with the 

 purple gloss (which has I may mention in some lights a greenish 

 tinge) is found to be confined to a broad terminal band ; the basal 

 portion of the feathers are a somewhat pale drab brown; the small- 

 est scapulars are the richest and warmest in coloring, the longest 

 the dullest ; the rump and upper tail-coverts much about the 

 same tint as the longer scapulars. The tail a rather pale drab 

 brown with one subterminal brownish black band, and three 

 other moderately dark brown bands, the third almost entirely 

 hidden by the upper tail-coverts ; the quills have the outer 

 webs brown, banded obscurely but broadly with darker brown, 

 the inner web a rather dark drab brown at the tips and white 

 at the bases with several broad black or blackish brown trans- 

 verse bands ; the primaries, especially the earlier ones, are con- 

 siderably darker on the outer webs and have a greyish tinge 

 on the interspaces of these webs ; the tertiaries are much paler 

 brown; the lesser coverts along the ulna and at the carpal 

 joint are almost black ; the greater coverts are about the same 

 color as the ground of the tail; the median coverts somewhat 

 darker ; all the quills are white tipped, the secondaries most 

 conspicuously so, and a few of the median coverts are also 

 tipped in the same way. There is more or less of a purple 

 gloss over the whole upper surface of the wings and tail. 



The lores and an inconspicuous band under the eye and the 

 base of the ear-coverts grey, the feathers darker shafted ; the 

 rest of the ear-coverts and the lateral portions of the throat 

 fulvous, the feathers more or less dark shafted ; chin and 

 throat pure white, or with the faintest yellowish tinge, with a 

 narrow but very conspicuous black central stripe ; upper 

 breast mingled white, and a pale, somewhat brownish, rufous; 

 lower breast, sides, flanks, axillaries and abdomen white, with 

 broad regular transverse brownish rufous bands darkest on the 

 sides and flanks ; vent and lower tail-coverts white, with a 

 dingy yellowish tinge, with here and there a trace of a trans- 

 verse rufous band ; the wing-lining is yellowish white, with 

 rufous bars and mottlings ; the lower surface of the quills 

 are, at the tips, pale French grey, with black transverse bauds ; 

 higher up they are white with pale greyish brown bands ; the 

 lower surface of the tail greyish white, the dark bands showing 

 through more conspicuously on the outer webs and less so on 

 the inner webs except of the four central tail-feathers. All the 

 tail feathers are tipped with drab brown, paling at the extreme 

 tip almost to white. This tipping is about a quarter of an inch 

 wide on the central and three-quarters of an inch on the exterior 

 tail feathers. 



