dish brown, broad behind and narrow in front, into which pass two streaks of the same hue, one from below 

 the angle of the mouth, the other from above and behind the eye ; throat and space between these streaks 

 dull white ; across the breast a broad gorget of scale-like greyish feathers, each crossed by a broad band of 

 black ; below this gorget a series of whitish feathers without bands ; at the back of the neck a broad crescent 

 of grey, below which is a series of slaty feathers minutely freckled with buff; shoulders grey, minutely 

 freckled with black ; upper surface brownish grey, minutely freckled with black and with a broad stripe of 

 dull buff down the margin of each feather ; greater wing-coverts, tertiaries and scapularies brownish grey, 

 minutely freckled with black and with a broad mark of chestnut-brown on the outer and a smaller mark of 

 the same hue on the inner web, each fading into buff near the tip ; primaries white, largely tipped with 

 brownish grey, passing into buff at the extremity, and minutely freckled with black ; tail grey on the inte- 

 rior, webs reddish, on the outer ones freckled with black and merging into a broad patch of the same 

 hue, the tip being reddish ; under surface slate-grey, minutely freckled with buffy brown, the feathers 

 of the sides of the breast and flanks of a paler hue than on the centre and abdomen, and on each a double 

 stripe of chestnut and black along their margins, forming a series of stripes on those parts of the body ; 

 vent and under tail-coverts white; thighs dark grey; bill dark horn-colour; irides dark brown; legs and 

 feet red. 



The figure, taken from a drawing by Mr. Wolf, is about three-fourths of the natural size. 



