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lateral stripes becoming much narrower, and sometimes less distinct, 
on forehead; a superciliary stripe of pale brownish buff or dull buffy- 
whitish, this very broad above lores, much narrower above auricular 
region, where narrowly streaked with dusky, the anterior portion 
minutely flecked (more or less) with the same; a broad loral stripe, 
extending from bill to anterior angle of eye, of dusky brown, more or 
less broken by pale buffy brown spots or flecks; malar, suborbital and 
auricular regions, chin and upper throat dull brownish white, flecked, 
except on last two, with dusky grayish brown, the auricular region 
crossed, diagonally, from about middle of malar region to end of 
auriculars, by a stripe of dusky intermixed, more or less, with light 
buffy brown or cinnamon; neck, all round, pale brownish buffy, 
rather broadly streaked with dusky grayish brown, the streaks 
darker on hindneck, paler (light fuscous or hair brown) on foreneck, 
where the streaks are sometimes coalesced into two indistinctly 
defined parallel stripes; chest pale brownish buffy or very pale buffy 
brown, transversely spotted or clouded with light grayish brown; 
rest of under parts (except under tail-coverts) white, immaculate 
medially, the sides and flanks broadly barred with dusky grayish 
brown, the bars nearly as wide as the white interspaces; under tail- 
coverts buff, with irregular, partly V-shaped, markings of blackish; 
axillars very regularly barred with dusky slate and white, the dusky 
bars rather wider than the white interspaces; under wing-coverts 
similarly but less regularly barred; scapulars and inter-scapulars 
black, broadly and sharply edged with buff, or buff and white, these 
buffy or whitish edgings forming four conspicuous stripes, the black, 
especially on scapulars, more or less broken by an irregular spotting 
or marbling of buffy brown (sayal brown or wood brown); wing- 
coverts grayish brown or dusky, tipped with dull whitish, the tertials 
black, narrowly margined with white (except in worn plumage) and 
irregularly barred with buffy brown (wood brown); secondaries deep 
brownish gray with broad terminal margins of white; primaries and 
primary coverts darker brownish gray or dusky, margined at tips 
with paler (primary coverts and proximal primaries sometimes nar- 
rowly tipped with white), the outer web of outermost primary white 
or broadly edged with white; upper rump grayish brown or dusky, 
the feathers tipped with grayish white; lower rump and upper tail 
coverts light brownish buffy, barred with dusky, the bars broader, 
more irregular, and nearly black on lateral coverts; tail dusky for 
about proximal two-thirds, the dusky more or less broken distally by 
spots of brownish gray and buffy, the terminal third cinnamon 
rufous or mikado brown passing into whitish terminally and crossed 
by a subterminal bar of black—the outermost rectrix, however, with- 
out cinnamon-rufous, but broadly barred with dull whitish and 
dusky, the latter predominating basally, where the paler bars do not 
