. Birds. Birds. 382 PAIiCONIDjE. crown, back, scapulars, and quills; lores whitish; forehead and above and beneath the eye white ; ear-coverts pale grey streaked with white; the ruff behind the ear-coverts differing in texture, but scarcely in colour; primaries ashy grey, 3rd, 4th, and 6th black or blackish brown on part of the terminal half, some black on the 2nd and 6th, the basal portion of all quills white ; upper tan-coverts banded grey and white, middle tail-feathers grey unbarred, the others white with, grey bars; lower parts white, throat and upper breast with a faint grey Fig.
. Birds. Birds. 382 PAIiCONIDjE. crown, back, scapulars, and quills; lores whitish; forehead and above and beneath the eye white ; ear-coverts pale grey streaked with white; the ruff behind the ear-coverts differing in texture, but scarcely in colour; primaries ashy grey, 3rd, 4th, and 6th black or blackish brown on part of the terminal half, some black on the 2nd and 6th, the basal portion of all quills white ; upper tan-coverts banded grey and white, middle tail-feathers grey unbarred, the others white with, grey bars; lower parts white, throat and upper breast with a faint grey Fig. 95.—Head of C. maerwras, J, |. Adult female. Above brown, feathers of head and hind-neck broadly margined with rufous or bufE, and the smaller wing- coverts with broad pale rufous borders; forehead whitish, a buffy white supercilium and patch below the eye; moustachial stripe and ear-coverts brown; a well-marked rufE of small white or bufE feathers with broad brown shaft-stripes all round the neck, behind the ear-coverts, and across the throat; quills brown above, buffi or whitish below, vnth blackish-brown cross-bands on both sides; upper tail-coverts white, with brown, shaft-stripes or other markings; middle tail-feathers brown, outer feathers buff or rufous-white, all with dark-brown cross-bands. Lower parts white, with rufous-brown shaft-stripes, broadest on the breast; in old birds these stripes become very narrow, especially on the abdomen and lower tail-coverts. Toung birds resemble the female above, except that the feathers have, at first, rufous edges throughout, there is a white nuchal patch with brown shaft-stripes, and the ruff is unstreaked or almost unstreaked buff and very conspicuous; the upper tail- coverts are white, the lower parts throughout are rufous-buff with faint shaft-stripes. There is a gradual passage from this plumage into that of the adult; nearly adult males are often found with patches of brown on the crown and brown shaft-stripes on the breas
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