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with ochraceous or reddish ; in the most common 
state the plumage is of a yellowish umber brown, 
the feathers on the crown and nape deep umber 
brown in the centre, on the back each feather is 
longitudinally streaked along the shaft with umber 
brown, and marked across with delicate irregular 
bars of the same colour. The feathers immediately 
lying over the -wings are pale ochraceous, dark 
along the centre, and with the outer webs pure 
white, which forms a conspicuous longitudinal 
streak when the bird is at rest ; the feathers com- 
posing the wings have irregular markings of the 
same tint, and somewhat same distribution with 
those on the back ; the coverts are tipped with a 
large white spot on their outer webs, secondaries 
indistinctly barred with wood brown and ochra- 
ceous ; the quills with deep wood brown and 
yellowish white on the outer webs, pale reddish 
brown on the inner. The tail is rounded, indis- 
tinctly barred and mottled with wood and pale 
reddish brown, the light markings palest on the 
outer feathers. 
The ruff is somewhat imperfect above the eyes, 
but the disk is ample, grayish white, tinted with 
ochraceous and reddish. The under parts are 
white, or yellowish white ; the feathers longitudi- 
nally streaked with deep umber brown, and crossed 
with occasionally interrupted bars of the same 
colour, yellowish white and ochraceous. Tarsi 
and feet thickly feathered as far as the last scales 
