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forming a definite coronal streak, the rufous on either side more or 

 less barred and spotted with black ; lores, supercilia and sides of the 

 head white with narrow margins or small spots of black ; 

 nape, shoulders and upper back finally barred with black, these parts, 

 specially the nape, being often much spotted with white ; a broad, 

 well-marked nuchal collar of rufous, sometimes quite unmarked with 

 other colours, rarely slightly spotted with black and white, on the 

 lower neck and upper back; lower back, rump and upper tail coverts 

 much more boldly barred with black and white marks, either lines 

 or large spots on the outer webs of the lower back and rump 

 feathers and the tips of the upper tail coverts ; scapulars like the 

 back, but often a little paler, still more boldly marked with black 

 and white, the latter predominating. Wing coverts like the back, 

 but rather paler, the greater and median boldly spotted with buff 

 and black, the amount varying in individuals, and the bufi" 

 on the outer webs often forming a fairly distinct broad bar across 

 the closed wing : lesser coverts and shoulder of wing less conspi- 

 cuously barred. Quills brown, not very dark, and bordered on the 

 outer webs of the primaries with pale bufi"; primary coverts the 

 same, but often much freckled or barred with buff; the innermost 

 secondaries are like their greater coverts, and those nearest them are 

 tipped pale and barred to a slight extent on the outer webs at their 

 ends. Below chin, throat and centre of neck and breast, deep, 

 velvety black ; sides of lower neck and breast huffish white to 

 buff, broadly barred with black, and a few bars extending across the 

 breast below the black and the barring sometimes continued well 

 down the flanks ; remainder of lower parts rufescent bufi" to 

 deep rusty bufi", usually darkest on the vent and under tail coverts. 



Under aspect of the wing and axillaries dark silver grey. 



Colour of soft ijarts. — Legs and feet slate or leaden grey ; bill dark 

 bluish slate or plumbeous grey, the culmen slightlj* darker, espe- 

 cially at the base where it is quite a dark brown; irides white, 

 occasionally yellowish. 



" Irides white ; bill light leaden, dusky brown on culmen ; 

 legs and feet pale bluish or fieshy grey, with the joints and 

 tarsus washed with bluish " (Legge). 



Measurements. — Total length about 5-3" (^134*6mm); wing 

 3-33" (==85'5mm); tarsus about 1-0" (=25-4mm); bill from 

 gape about '65" (^16-5mm), and from front about '50" (^12-9mm), 

 tail about 1" (=25-4mm). Legge gives the total length as about 

 6-3" to 6-5", and the wing as 3-4" to 3-55", but none of the speci- 

 mens in the British Museum have a wing as large as this latter. 

 Legge however includes Indian birds in his measurements, and 

 those from upper India run very large. 



Description, adult male. — Like the female, but has the chin white 

 instead 'of black, the breast and foreneck banded black and buff 



