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Adult female. General colour above ashy olive-brown, a little clearer brown on the lower back, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series somewhat fulvous-brown 
externally, with a yellowish-buff spot at the ends (doubtless the remains of young plumage); bastard. 
wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, externally ashy on the primaries, the others 
externally like the back ; tail-feathers dusky brown, washed with olive-brown on both webs; crown 
of head ashy-brown, the feathers at the base of the forehead and above the eye whitish; lores dull 
ashy; sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks light ashy-brown; throat white, streaked with brown 
along the sides; fore-neck, breast, and sides of body light tawny, deeper on the latter, with a shade 
of ashy on the fore-neck and chest, the feathers on the flanks edged with ashy-whitish ; centre of 
lower breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white, the latter edged with pale tawny; axillaries 
and under wing-coverts ashy-whitish, with a slight tinge of tawny; quills dusky below, ashy 
along the inner web. Тоба! length 7:8 inches, culmen 0:9, wing 4, tail 3, tarsus 1:2. 
Adult male. Similar to the female in colour. Total length 8 inches, culmen 0:98, wing 43, 
tail 2:95, tarsus 1:25. 
In the series brought home by Dr. C. W. Andrews from Christmas Island very little difference 
in colour can be detected. Specimens obtained in February and March are a little more olive above 
and less grey on the chest than those procured in October and November, but the differences are 
scarcely perceptible. 
Young. Darker and more olive-brown than the adults, the feathers of the head and back centred 
with yellowish-buff shaft-lines, and the wing-coverts tipped with triangular spots of buff; ear-coverts 
dark brown, with whitish shaft-lines; cheeks buff, separated from the buffy-white throat by a malar 
line of ashy-brown spots ; fore-neck, breast, and sides of body reddish-buff, mottled with dusky spots 
at the end of the feathers; abdomen white, with dusky spots on the feathers; under tail-coverts 
white, with reddish-brown margins. 
¬ The description of the female is taken from the type specimen, and that of the male and young 
from birds obtained by Dr. Andrews. Тһе specimens figured in the Plate are in the Seebohm 
Collection, and were obtained on Christmas Island by Mr. J. J. Lister. [R В. S] 
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