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Adult Male in Winter Plumage.— General colour above olive- 
brown mottled with white and black markings, the white 
fentT spots on the dorsal 
feathers, and on the scapulars and wing-coverts in the form 
of arrow'-head spots or bars, which are margined with black ■ 
all the feathers of the upper surface with more or less con- 
cealed black centres; wing-coverts rather lighter brown than 
the back, the white spots somewhat less plentifully distributed 
excepUng on the greater series and innermost secondaries’ 
w ere the white b^ars with their accompanying black lines 
are very distinct and somewhat zig-zag in character on the 
tatter; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills sepia-brown, 
externally whitish-brown, with a white edging to^ the first 
primary and outer feathers of the bastard-wing; the inner- 
most secondaries paler and more sandy-brown along their 
inner webs; lower back black, with a few small white mark- 
tail-coverts olive-brown, centred with 
feathers rather conspicuously barred and 
edged with white ; tail-feathers dark brown, externally lighter 
hlTrrVr°'T head ohve-brown, the feathers spotted ^with 
black like the back ; forehead and eyebrow slaty-grey, the 
latter profusely dotted with white; a narrow line at thi base of 
the forehead and a loral spot black, extending below the eye 
pd on the fore part of the cheeks ; above the lores a fainUv 
with white; ear-coverts uniform brown, extendincP on to the 
sides of the neck; neck, fore-neck, breast, and sides of bodv 
everywhere spotted with white, which take^ the form of crS 
bars on he sides ot the body, each white bar skirted bv a 
narrow blackish bar above and below ; the chest and upLr 
breast shaded with ashy; lower breast and abdomen whfte 
shading off into sandy-buff on the vent and under tail-coverts ■ 
whiS- '"‘"S conspicuousi; 
hrmvn\ J "'ing-coverts aud axillaries dusky 
K^w bnrln? " tbe flanks ; quills dusky 
Sd it’the rin at base, dusky on the culmen 
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Adult Female.— Differs from the male in having the sides of 
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