STItlX BADIA. 
compact ; the base of the separate plumes is chesnut, so as to constitute a dark 
circle of this colour immediately round the eyes, which is broader at the anterior 
canthus. On the under parts, from the neck to the vent, the brown colour is greatly 
diluted, and the fulvous lustre alternates with patches of an Isabella yellow, AM 
these parts are dotted : on the plumes of the neck the dots are simple, and nearly 
round ; on those of the breast and abdomen they are oblong, and several follow each 
other on the shafts, having an intermediate line of white. The feet are very thickly 
covered with silky plumes of a fulvous colour. The toes are brownish, and nearly 
naked ; the claws have a yellowish tint, and the intermediate one has a distended 
rough margin interiorly. The bill is yellowish, and of a moderate size. The quill- 
feathers and the tail feathers are marked with broad transverse bands of a saturated 
blackish-brown colour : in the two first of the quill-feathers, as well as in several of the 
greater coverts, the portion of the exterior vane which is chesnut in the others, is 
yellowish- white, and the margin of the wing has a conspicuous border of alter- 
nate brown and whitish bands. 
