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of their outer web, forming a large patch ; lower back and rump 
rather more dusky than tlie upper back ; the upper tail-coverts 
ashy-grey, with the centre or outer webs black, and the edge 
white; the two centre tail-feathers black, si,x inches long, and 
produced far beyond the tail ; the rest of the tail-feathers grey 
with white margins, the inner ones blackish on the outer web ; 
wing-coverts uniform grey, the greater series tipped with pale 
cinnamon, forming a band along the upper margin of the 
speculum ; the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills grey, 
except tlie outer webs of the latter and the tips, which are 
dusky ; the secondaries externally bronzy-green, broadly tipped 
w’ith white, before which is a sub-terminal bar of black; 
the inner secondaries externally black, forming a broad hind 
margin to the speculum; crown of head, sides of face, and 
upper throat chocolate-brown, the crown slightly mottled with 
dusky, and the lower margin of the throat-patch inclining to 
sooty-brown, with a streak of bronzy-green gloss from behind 
the eye down the sides of the nape ; hind-neck ashy, with 
scarcely any trace of freckling, separated from the crown by a 
patch of black on the nape. Under surface of body pure white, 
this running up on the sides of the neck and forming a broad 
band which reaches to the nape ; the sides of the body freckled 
with narrow wavy lines of grey ; on each side of the lower 
flanks a cons|,iicuous patch of buff ; under tail-coverts black, 
the lateral ones edged wiih white; under wing-coverts ash)'’ 
margined with white ; axillaries white, with a few dusky bars 
or shaft-stripes ; bill black, pale leaden-blue on sides of upper 
mandible ; legs and feet blackish-gre)', paler on outside of tarsus 
and web of toes ; iris brown. Total length, 25 inches ; culmen, 
2-0 ; wing, 107; tail, 5-0; tarsus, 1-9. 
Adult Female.— Different from the male. Brown above, the 
feathers edged with sandy-buff or white and barred or irre"u- 
larly spotted with the same colour, the markings being gcm.T- 
ally in the shape of a horse-shoe; wing-coverts ashy-grey, with 
whitish margins, more distinct on the greater coverts; the 
(juills brown, darker at the ends ; the secondaries broadly edged 
with white at the ends and slightly darker brown, but shownig 
no speculum ; the tail-feathers brown, margined with white 
and irregularly barred with sandy-buff ; crown of head rufous- , 
brown, narrowly streaked with blackish ; the sides of the face 
