feather, these spots paling into whitish near the apex ; the hind-neck plain urnher-brown, separating the 
nape-spot from the mantle; head tawny buff, mottled and, as it were, striped with dark brown edges 
to the feathers ; a few of the feathers of the crown with silvery-whitish tips ; on the nape a band of 
beautiful lilac plumes, somewhat elongated laterally ; wing-coverts like the back, and spotted with tawny 
buff at the tips ; the quills brown, edged with whity brown and having pale spots at the end of the 
secondaries, these spots being somewhat obsolete on the tips of the primaries ; upper tail-coverts 
blackish brown, having in addition to the fulvous bar at the end, a second sub-terminal bar of tawny 
buff ; tail-feathers brown, edged with pale brown along both webs, and tipped with pale tawny buff ; 
lores and ear-coverts, as well as the sides of the neck, tawny buff, like the head, and striped in the same 
manner, with dusky brown edges to the feathers ; cheeks huffy whitish, the feathers edged with brown ; 
throat fulvescent, shading off into wliity brown on the chest, the breast and abdomen being uniform 
creamy buff; the sides of the body whitish, barred with dusky on the flanks and thighs ; the throat and 
fore-neck spotted with small bars of dusky ; under tail-coverts pale tawny buff, with a few remains of 
dusky brown bars ; axillaries buffy whitish ; under wing-coverts tawny buff, with a few dusky brown bars ; 
quills ashy brown below, pale yellow along the inner w r eb : “hill and feet dusky brown; bare skin at 
the corner of the mouth thick, fleshy, prominent, and of a pinky flesh-colour ; iris dark brown ” ( Gould ). 
Total length 1T5 inches, culmen 1*1, wing 5*75, tail 4 25, tarsus 1*6. 
Adult female. Very similar to the male, hut without the lilac-coloured band on the nape, the latter 
being of the same colour as the head, and separated from the mantle by the hind-neck, which is of a 
lighter and more umber-brown than the back. Total length 11*5 inches, culmen IT, wing 5*7, tail 4*5, 
tarsus 1*6. 
The figure in the Plate represents a male of this species drawn from a specimen in the British 
Museum. 
From a sketch by Mr. North. 
