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ducto, et regione malari fulvescenti-albis : genis et regione auriculari minute brunneo striolatis : linea, 

 brunnea ab oculo postico supra regionem paroticam producta : gutture fulvescenti-albo, parte ima 

 brunneo striolata : pectore antico brunneo marmorato : corpore reliquo subtus fulvescenti-albo, crisso 

 et subcaudalibus brunneo punctatis : bypocbondriis brunnescentibus, fulvido marginatis : subalaribus 

 medianis albis, minimis brunneis. 



3 cestiv. feminse simillimus, sed tectricibus alarum canis et fascia alari viridi. conspicua, pectore summo clare 

 ferrugineo semper distinguendus. 



Pull, saturate umbrinus, dorso superiore paullo fulvescente : supercilio lato et facie laterali fulvescenti-ferru- 

 gineis, linea distincta a basi rostri per oculum ducta, et macula ad regionem auricularem posticam posita 

 saturate brunneis : dorso medio et uropygio laterali maculis quatuor flavicanti- albis ornato : gutture 

 toto et pectore antico fulvescenti-ferrugineis, hoc paullo cinerascente : corpore reliquo subtus flavicanti- 

 albo. 



Male in full plumage. Crown of the head brown, somewhat glossed with green on the hinder part, and 

 exhibiting on some of the feathers a slight rusty edging; forehead dull chestnut, with white centres to 

 the feathers ; sides of the face and neck dark chestnut with white centres, giving it the appearance of 

 being thickly streaked with white ; chin blackish ; from the fore part of the eye to the hinder part of the 

 nape, a very distinct white line ; back brown, slightly tinged with bluish ashy ; lower part of the back 

 and rump more clearly washed with the last-named colour, and covered with irregular bars of white ; 

 tail dark brown, with narrow white edgings to the feathers ; all the upper wing-coverts clear blue-grey 

 or pale lavender, the greater ones tipped with white, forming a conspicuous alar bar ; primary-coverts 

 brown, edged with white and tinged with grey, the primaries themselves brown, with conspicuous white 

 shafts, the secondaries green at the base, tipped with white, forming two bars of green and white, the 

 first-named being much the broadest, the inner secondaries glossed slightly with greenish and tipped 

 with white, the innermost or dorsal quills long and pointed, lavender-coloured on the outer web, with a 

 broad streak of white down the centre of the feather, bordered on each side with greenish black and 

 again margined with white ; chest sandy brown, covered with irregular lines of blackish ; lower part of 

 the breast and belly white, with a slight tinge of rusty colour occasionally, the vent and under tail- 

 coverts vermiculated and spotted with dark brown; flanks finely vermiculated with lines of brown; 

 some of the lower ones broadly edged with grey, and so forming a patch on the sides of the vent ; under 

 wing-coverts for the most part white, those round the edge of the wing ashy grey ; axillary plumes 

 white ; bill black, underneath at the base flesh-coloured ; feet brownish, membrane blackish ; iris light 

 brown. Total length 14 inches, culmen 1-5, wing 7'7, tail 3'1, tarsus 1-1. 



Female in full breeding plumage. General colour brown, very dark on the head ; all the feathers of the back 

 margined with sandy brown and fulvous white, the rump being especially dull-coloured, and the edgings 

 on this part of the body dark brown; wing-coverts ashy grey, the greater ones tipped with white, 

 forming an alar bar ; quills dark brown with white shafts, the external secondaries bordered with white, 

 forming with the wing- coverts a second alar bar, the innermost secondaries also edged with whitish; 

 tail brown, edged with white, some of the outer feathers having much more white on them than in the 

 male; feathers round the eye and over the ear-coverts, as well as the hind part of the cheeks, dark 

 brown ; a loral spot, a distinct eyebrow drawn from the fore part of the eye nearly to the nape, malar 

 region and entire throat buffy white ; rest of the sides of the face and neck, as well as the lower part of 

 the throat, brownish white, covered with little streaks of darker brown ; upper part of the chest and 

 sides of the lower part of the neck deep rusty-brown, the latter varied with white; rest of the under 

 surface of the body buffy white, the breast almost bare in many places, the flanks distinctly mottled 



