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grey, with obsolete whitish shaft-stripes to the ear-coverts ; lores dusky grey, with a slightly indicated 
paler line above, reaching beyond the eye; cheeks and throat white, with a distinct malar line of 
black spots; fore-neck and chest ashy-brown, tinged with pale orange-buff, and having a few 
scattered triangular spots of black; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white, the latter with 
narrow dusky margins; sides of body, flanks, and thighs brown, with a slight tinge of orange-buff ; 
under wing-coverts and axillaries orange-rufous : * bill yellow, with a few dusky cloudings; feet 
vivid orange-yellow; claws yellowish horny; iris brown; eyelid greenish-yellow” (J. Scully). 
Total length 8 inches, culmen 0:85, wing 4:75, tail 8:0, tarsus 1-0. 
Young. Rather darker brown than the adult female, and with ochraceous shaft-lines to the 
feathers of the upper surface, these streaks broader on the wing-coverts, the greater series of which 
have a triangular ochreous tip; the sides of the throat, breast, and flanks are more 
with black than in the adult female. 
The specimens described are in the Hume Collection, the male from 
from Kashmir. 
plentifully spotted 
Raipur and the female 
The pair figured in the Plate are in the Seebohm Collection, the male from 
“ India” and the female from Rahun near Etawah. [R. B. S.] 
