SPOTTED TOTANUS. 
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those in the centre uniform in tint ; the other 
pairs, except the outer, clouded with a deeper 
shade, and the outer pair marked indistinctly with 
bands of white and hair-brown. In our Tobago 
specimens we have the upper parts, except the 
wings and tail-coverts, of a uniform shade; on 
these other parts the feathers are barred alter- 
nately with pale wood-brown and clove-brown, but 
broader and more boldly than in similar states of 
the common bird ; beneath, the colour is pure 
unspotted white, the hair-brown without lustre, 
reaching slightly upon each side of the breast. 
