

obscured. In summer a rufous tinge diffuses itself over the entire bird, but more especially over the lores, 

 eyebrows, and under surface, leaving, however, the centre of the belly nearly white." 



In winter the upper surface is of a greenish olive, with strongly marked streaks of blackish brown on the 

 head, and slight streaks of the same hue on the feathers of the back ; under surface white, faintly tinned 

 with fulvous ; the feathers of the sides of the neck, the breast, and flanks with an oblong spot of blackish 

 brown m the centre ; wing-coverts brownish black, the middle ones tipped with yellowish white, and the 

 greater broadly edged with olive ; primaries brown, margined with olive ; central tail-feathers olive-brown, 

 external web of the outer feather on each side pale olive ; the inner web brown at the base and along 

 three-fourths of the margin, the remainder white ; the intermediate feathers brown, with olive margins ; 

 the one next the outermost on each side with an oblong spot of white at the tip of the inner web ; bill 

 blackish brown above, flesh-colour beneath ; irides dark brown ; legs pale fleshy brown. 



The Plate represents the two sexes, of the natural size. 



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