MIRAFRA SABOTA.— Smith. 
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Aves.' — Plate LXXXIX, Fig. X - (Female.) 
M. supra fusca, plumis forrugineo-marginatis ; infra rubro-alba, pectore lateribusque rubro-aurantio- 
tinctis ; gutturis imo pectoreque fusco-conspersis ; alis fuscis, pennis rufo-marginatis ; rectricibus, 
duabus mediis exceptis, profunde fuscis rufo-albo-marginatis, duabus mediis rubro-brunneis rubro- 
aurantio-marginatis ; mandibula supcriore apiceque inferioris rubro-brunneis, hac versus basin 
subflava ; pedibus subflavis carneo-tinctis. 
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudse 3 unc. 10 lin. ; caudee 2 unc. 3 lin. 
Colour. — The feathers of the upper surface of the head, of the back 
and sides of the neck towards the body, of the interscapular region, and of 
the back and rump umber-brown, broadly edged and tipped with clear 
reddish orange, fading at their margins into rusty white or pale wood-brown ; 
the feathers of the back and sides of the neck, towards the nape, umber- 
brown, narrowly edged and tipped with rusty white or cream yellow. The 
chin, throat, breast and belly rusty white, the former and the flanks 
tinted more or less strongly with reddish orange, and the breast, and 
the lower part of the throat, mottled with umber-brown stripes ; thighs pale 
reddish orange. The lesser wing coverts, the primary and secondary quill 
coverts, and the tertiary quill feathers, umber-brown, broadly edged and 
tipped with a colour intermediate between orpiment and reddish orange, 
which tint, in many of the feathers, fades at the very edges into sienna-yellow 
or rusty wood-brown ; the primary and secondary quill feathers intermediate 
between broccoli and reddish brown, the primaries, towards the base and at the 
point, narrowly edged externally with wood-brown, the secondaries edged 
externally throughout and tipped with sienna-yellow or rusty white, the 
inner vanes of both, towards the quills, pale pearl-grey. The two middle 
tail feathers reddish brown, edged and tipped with rusty reddish orange, the 
rest of the tail feathers umber-brown, narrowly edged and tipped with wood- 
