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quills brown, dusky-blackish at the tips and along the outer 
webs, the shafts for the most part white, brown towards the 
bases ; the secondaries brown, with a little white at the base of 
the inner webs and narrowly fringed with white near the tips, 
the inner ones a little more broadly ; tail-feathers ashy-brown, 
fringed with white round the ends, the centre ones blackish 
and extended a little beyond the ends of the others j crown of 
head bright sandy-rufous, minutely streaked with black ‘ lores 
and a distinct eyebrow white with narrow streaks of blackish ; 
sides of face also white with dusky streaks, the ear-coverts 
tinged with rufous ; under surface of body white, the chin un- 
spotted ; fore-neck and chest tinged with sandy-rufous and 
minutely spotted with du.sky-black, which sometimes takes the 
form of longitudinal streaks or arroiv-head bars, the latter form 
of markings being especially distinct on the sides of the body ; 
breast and abdomen white, the latter with a few linear streaks of 
black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, those round 
the bend of the wing mottled with blackish bases ; lower pri- 
mary-coverts dusky with whitish tips ; quills dusky below ; bill, 
black at tip, greenish-yellow at base of mandible ; feet and 
tarsi greenish-yellow. Total length, 7 inches j culmen, I'l j 
wing, 5-4; tail, a’l ; tarsus, I'a. 
Adult Temale. — Similar to the male. Total length, 7 inches ; 
wing, 5-4. 
Adult in Wiuter Plumage — Much browner than the summer 
plumage and without any rufous, except perhaps a slight tinge 
on the head ; under surface of body white, the lower throat 
and chest ashy-fulvous with a few narrow streaks and lines of 
blackish, the flanks slightly washed with brown ; on the under 
tail-coverts a few narrow mesial shaft streaks of blackish. 
Young Birds. — Much more rufous on the upper surface even 
than in the breeding plumage, the back much blacker than in 
any other age of the bird, intermixed with a great deal of rufous 
and distinguished by the conspicuous whitish edgings to the 
dorsal feathers, scapulars, and inner secondaries; the wing- 
coverts with broad margins of sandy-rufous, but the quills the 
same as in the adults ; crown of head distinctly rufous with 
longitudinal black centres to the feathers ; chin white, as also 
the^breast and abdomen, which sometimes have a tinge of buif; 
