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Juv. similis adultis, sed satiiratior : pileo saturate cinereo, valde brunneo lavato, nucha distiuctius cinerascente : 

 uropygio albo maculato, et supracaudalibus brunneo margiuatis : interscapulio scapularibusque sordide 

 brumieis, plumis omnibus nigro margiuatis et medialiter ochraceo lineatis : tectricibus alarum saturate 

 brunneis, olivaceo lavatis, albido terminatis et medialiter ocbraceo lineatis, minoribus magis conspicue 

 notatis : supercilio fulvo : genis cineraceis, fulvo striolatis : subtus fulvescens, pectore lsetius colorato, 

 gutture fere immaculate* : corpore reliquo subtus intense nigro maculato, abdomine sparsius : sub- 

 alaribus albis. 



Pull, nigricans, sub ccrta luce brunneo nitens : dorso angustissime fulvo striato, tectricibus alarum distiuctius 

 eodem colore striatis et margiuatis : dorso postico et uropygio ocbrascenti-cineraceis : gutture et 

 pectore superiore lsetissime ocbraceis, boc nigricante vario, abdomine imo albicante, hypocbondriis 

 paullulum nigro notatis. 



Nestling. Above very dark brown, almost blackish, the head being especially dark, and only showing the 

 brown tint when looked at in certain lights ; lores ocbre ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of the neck 

 blackish, tbc former slightly streaked with ochre ; some of the dorsal feathers edged with black, and 

 having an ochre stripe down the centre; the wing-coverts and scapulars coloured like the back, but 

 perhaps a little more tinged with brown, while the median shaft-stripes are much broader and widen 

 out conspicuously towards the tip of the feather, which is also edged with buff; the greater coverts 

 certainly more brown in tiut, with whitish edgings ; quills and tail, as far as can be seen of them, deep 

 blackish, with very narrow whitish edgings ; lower back and rump greyish, tinged with ochre-brown ; 

 throat and chest rich ochre, the former unstriped, but the sides of the latter entirely black; lower 

 breast and abdomen white, with blackish mottlings on the sides of the former and on the flanks. 



Obs. The specimen from which the above description has been taken is in the collection of cm - friend 

 Mr. J. A. Harvie Brown, who took it from the nest during his expedition to Norway in company with 

 Mr. E. R. Alston. It is so young that remains of the nestling-down, which is of a pale buff colour, 

 still adhere to the feathers of the sides of the crown, back, and rump. The legs are of a fleshy-brown 

 colour; and the bill is horn-brown, inclining to fleshy brown near the base, and having a white nail at 

 the extremity. Professor Newton has been kind enough to lend us a specimen representing the next 

 Mage of development. This bird is some days older than the one above described, and is altogether 

 lighter in coloration ; the wings and tail are more fully grown, and the down has disappeared. The 

 following is a description of Professor Newton's bird : — 



Nestling (a Utile older) . Upper surface of the body brown, the head darker and more inclining to olivaceous, 

 with a few fulvous shaft-stripes indistinctly showing; the back lighter and richer brown, all the feathers 

 plainly edged with black, and streaked down the centre with shaft-stripes of bright ochre ; the wing- 

 coverts coloured like the back, the least ones spotted, the median ones streaked down the centre and 

 edged with ochre, the greater coverts rather more bronzy brown, with edgings of light ochre ; quills 

 blackish brown, externally washed with bronzy brown and tipped with whitish ; the rump dull ochre, 

 with a very faint tinge of grey, and mottled all over with spots and streaks of paler buff; tail blackish 

 brown, the leathers narrowly edged with fulvous white or pure white; lores and a very faint eyebrow 

 dull ochre; car-coverts dark brown like the head, but exhibiting a few ochre shaft-stripes; cheeks 

 bright ochre, the feathers rather broadly edged with black, giving a somewhat mottled appearance ; 

 throat pale ochre, unspotted ; breast rather more bright, mottled all over with blackish spots ; centre 

 of the breast and abdomen whitish ; the flanks and under tail-coverts tinged with ochre, the former 

 mottled all over with black; the under wing-coverts whitish, very faintly tinged with ochre; feet 

 yellowish flesh-colour ; bill born-brown, yellowish at the base, merging into fleshy brown towards the 

 tip of the lower mandible. 



