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garden at Northfield on August 14th, 1891, which he was good 

 enough to send for my inspection. The colours of the soft parts 

 were taken down by Mr. Coburn himself. 



Male. Crown, nape, ear-coverts, and rump brownish ash- 

 grey, changing to brown on the mantle, and light rufous-brown 

 on the wing and upper tail-coverts ; all the feathers marked more 

 or less with subterminal blackish lines and having pale edges, 

 either buff or ashy ; the lines semilunar and clear on the 

 mantle and upper tail-coverts. Primaries and secondaries dark 

 hair-brown, the latter with clean-cut buff edges to outer web and 

 tip; the tertials with the clean-cut edging, and, inside it, a dark 

 line. Tail hair-brown, all the feathers tipped with dull black 

 and white in succession ; in the outer pair these lines are carried 

 round to the webs, and in the next pair partly so. Under parts 

 dull white, marked very slightly on throat and across upper 

 breast, and strongly on sides of throat and neck and flanks, with 

 more or less semicircular dark lines. The head and nape have 

 a grey appearance, and shade into the warm colour of the back ; 

 over the eye is a very indistinct line of buffy white, marked with 

 dark specks. 



Female. Crown light rufous-brown, feathers with subterminal 

 blackish band. From the beak over eye an irregular line of buffy 

 white, broadest immediately behind the eye. Nape greyer and less 

 distinctly lined, hardly at all, in fact, and some of the feathers 

 unlined. Ear-coverts rufous-brown marked with dull black. 

 Mantle and wing-coverts warm rufous-brown, the feathers with 

 broad subterminal lines of black, and some of them shading to 

 buff on edge on lower back and greater coverts. Rump greyer, 

 marked the same. Upper tail-coverts warm rufous-brown, with 

 a speck or two of black on a few feathers. Tail hair-brown ; 

 central feathers warmly tinged rufous, outer pair edged with black 

 on inner web (extending round part) and then with white all 

 round ; second pair similar at tip, third and fourth indistinctly so. 

 Under parts dirty white, sides of neck and flanks marked with 

 more or less indistinct and irregular blackish subterminal lines. 

 A buffy tinge on upper breast and signs of dark markings almost 

 wanting. Very little lined on under parts, and actually less than 

 in the male of the same age. 



This is Mr. Coburn's description of the soft parts. Tarsus 

 and toes slaty drab with a tinge of blue, at joint of tibia and 



