218 DOUBLE-SPURRED ERANCOLIN. 
the nape alone being rufous. Upon the whole, 
however, we have little doubt that both are of the 
same species, differing perhaps in age or sex. 
The general ground colour of the upper plumage, 
as in most of this genus, is hair-brown, darkest on 
the crown, where it is unspotted, and forms a patch, 
bordered in front and on the sides by a line of 
black ; this is again margined by another of white, 
which commences at the nostrils and passes above the 
eye and car : the nape is rufous, beyond which the 
feathers begin to be black in the middle and rufous 
on the sides, varied also with whitish. The rufous 
disappears on the interscapulars, leaving only the 
white stripes, and those extend no further than the 
middle of the hack. The chin is quite white, with- 
out those little black spots and stripes which are on 
the ears; the throat, breast, and body are all co- 
loured alike ; the ground colour of each feather is 
cream-coloured white, down the shaft is a long pear- 
shaped black spot, inclosing a mark of dirty-white, 
representing the letter Y, while on each side of the 
feathers there is a broad stripe of rufous : the feathers 
of the flanks and thighs are simply dirty-white, 
with a brown central stripe. The primary quills are 
blackish, dotted on the outer web with fulvous white, 
and marked on the inner with two longitudinal 
stripes of the same, one at the edge, the other in the 
middle of the weh. Tail very short, dark brown, 
and freckled with a lighter tint, hut without any 
bands ; lower part of the hack, the rump, and upper 
tail-covers freckled, like the tail, with minute 
