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reater wing-coverts dark brown, with large white fan-shaped 
terminal spots; primary wing-coverts dark brown, with a broad olive-brown patch on the outer webs ; 
tertials russet- brown, obscurely tipped with white ; secondaries brown, broadly margined with russet- 
brown on the outer webs; primaries brown, margined with pale brown on the outer webs; tail- 
feathers russet-brown, the outer pair with a deep terminal we 
mottled with slaty brown; cheeks, chin, throat, and breast buffish white; rest of the underparts 
white, the feathers of the flanks broadly tipped with crescentic black marks ; axillaries black, with 
white bases ; lower primary-coverts brown; lower secondary-coverts white, with grey bases. 
Geocichline markings on inner webs of quills, white. 
Bill sooty grey above, yellow below; second primary intermediate in length between the sixth 
and seventh; tarsi and feet pale flesh-colour; outer tail-feathers very slightly shorter than the 
longest. 
Length of wing 4:45 to 4:8 inches, tail 3-2 to 3-1 inches, culmen 1:0 inch, tarsus 1:5 to 1:2 inch; 
bastard-primary extending far beyond the primary-coverts, its exposed portion measuring 1:15 to 
1:05 inch. 
The male is unknown. 
'The immature example shows remains of the first plumage, some feathers on the nape and some 
of the scapulars having pale shaft-streaks and black tips, while most of the feathers of the upper 
parts show more or less obscure dark margins. The crescentic spots on the flanks extend also to the 
black, tipped with white on both webs; g 
breast. 
The Plate is drawn life-size from the type in the British Museum. It has previously been 
figured, but only two-thirds of the natural size (Forbes, * Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 
London, 1883, plate lii.). Ап uncoloured copy of this plate is given by Forbes in his *Naturalist's 
Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago’ (р. 337). 
dge of white; ear-coverts white, . 
