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fringed warm buff; scapulars sepia, paler towards light or warm 

 buff edges ; back and rump pale greyish-brown with black-brown 

 mesial streaks and warm buff edges ; upper tail-coverts as rump 

 but with irregular shadings and markings of brown ; indistinct 

 eye-stripe light buff, slightly streaked sepia ; below eye sepia 

 streak extending to ear-coverts ; lores and cheeks light buff or 

 white ; warm buff moustachial line streaked sepia from base of 

 lower mandible to nape ; ear-coverts and sides of neck warm buff, 

 narrowly streaked sepia ; chin and throat white ; lower -throat 

 and breast light or warm buff with mesial sepia streaks of varying 

 width ; flanks same but streaks narrower ; belly and vent white ; 

 under tail-coverts cinnamon sometimes with mesial sepia streaks 

 and markings ; axillaries white with sepia shaft-streaks ; under 

 wing-coverts white, those covering primaries with broad black- 

 brown tips ; tail-feathers : central pair sometimes dark ash-brown 



The Stone-Curlew (Burhinus a\ adicnemus) . 



tipped black-brown with a pale subterminal bar, preceded by an 

 ill-defined band of black-brown, sometimes pale ash-brown with 

 irregular markings and barrings of black-brown or sepia, remaining 

 feathers dark or pale ash-brown broadly tipped black, with irregular 

 black-brown markings and barrings and with subterminal white 

 band, outer feathers mostly white with long black tips, (markings 

 and coloration of tail-feathers vary considerably individually) ; 

 primaries black, inner webs edged white basally, 2nd and 3rd with 

 broad white patches across middle of web, 8th to 10th with bases 

 and tips white ; secondaries black, inner webs paler and white at 

 base, innermost secondaries sepia edged cream or buff and with 

 dark brown shafts ; primary-coverts black-brown ; greater coverts 

 dark ash-brown shading to greyish-white or white towards tips, 

 shafts and tips of outer, sometimes of both webs, black or black- 

 brown forming narrow wing-bar ; median coverts : lower series 

 pale grey narrowly edged buff with black-brown shaft-lines clouded 

 towards centre with black-brown, basal halves wiiite, upper series 

 with white basal halves uncovered and distal halves usually black- 



