. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 74 UUI) with only here and there a faint indication of a lighter sandy-colonred bar, those represented on the outer web by a very distinct whitish notch, even on the secondaries, the innermost of which are vermi- culated like the back, with indications of four or five cross bars of sandy buff; rump and upper tail-coverts more rufous than the back, the vcrmiculations being very indistinct, except towards the tips of the latter, which are also narrowly barred across with white ; tail- feathers dark brown, mottled with sandy buff vcrmiculatio
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 74 UUI) with only here and there a faint indication of a lighter sandy-colonred bar, those represented on the outer web by a very distinct whitish notch, even on the secondaries, the innermost of which are vermi- culated like the back, with indications of four or five cross bars of sandy buff; rump and upper tail-coverts more rufous than the back, the vcrmiculations being very indistinct, except towards the tips of the latter, which are also narrowly barred across with white ; tail- feathers dark brown, mottled with sandy buff vcrmiculations, and having indications of about ten irregular bands of the same colour, disappearing gradually towards the tips of the feathers, which arc entirely vermiculated with sandy colour, and inclining to white on the outer web of the external rectrices ; loral plumes white, with narrow terminal black margins, the shafts also black, and produced into hair-like bristles; the frontal plumes also white, tipped and centred with black, these light feathers extending backwards towards the ear-tufts, which are sandy buff on the inner web, and barred with black on the outer ; feathers round the eye rufous; ear-coverts and sides of face greyish white, with a few indications of obscure brown bars, more distinct on the hinder ear-coverts, and merging in the hue of black-tipped feathers that mark the facial ruff, the plumes composing which arc buff on the sides of the head, but become whiter on the throat, where they are not so broadly tipped or barred with black ; sides of neck dark brown, but very plainly mottled with bars of greyish white ; chin-feathers whitish ; rest of under surface of body for the most part white, washed with sandy buff on the chest, most of the feathers with broad black centres, those on the chest with lateral zigzag lines of brown, increasing in number and blacker in proportion on the abdomen- and flank-feathers, many of which have concealed sandy buff bars, excepting
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