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one, pafTing through the eyes backwards : throat dirty white : 

 fore part of the neck rufous grey, marked with tranfverfe in- 

 diftinct brownifh bands : breaft, belly, fides, and thighs, barred 

 grey and brown ; leaft fo on the belly, where it is almoft white : 

 wings marked with white and chefnut fpots : greater coverts 

 barred with chefnut : quills brown, the two firft marked on the 

 outer edge of each web with white, and towards the ftiaft with 

 chefnut ; the reft only with the laft colour: tail dufky, edged 

 with rufous grey; all but the two middle feathers fpotted on the 

 inner web with chefnut : legs grey. 



Inhabits the Philippine iflands, where it is called Tiklin. Place. 



Lev. Mitf. 4. 



Var. A. 



T ENGTH ten inches. Bill an inch and a quarter, and Description. 



brown : noftrils in a long furrow : the head and fides, taking Pl " LXXXVl ' 



in the eye and nape, ferruginous chefnut : from bafe of bill over 



the eye pafTes a pale ftreak almoft to the hind head : the upper 



part of the body brown, but each feather marked with a black 



and white tranfverfe ftripe near the end, giving the appearance 



of black and white ftripes on a brown ground : the hind part of 



the neck appears ftriated, but on the back more like fpots, and 



more white than black : the rump is plain : the under parts from 



the chin, and down the middle to the breaft, afh-colour; but the 



neck on the fides, the breaft and belly, are ftriated with black 



and white : vent pale ferruginous brown : the wing coverts not 



to be diftinguifhed in markings from the back : quills fpotted 



brown and white : the tail is very little longer than the wings : 



the legs are fkfli-colour : claws brown. 



Inhabits Otaheite. Place. 



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