A ves.— P late XIII. (M al e .)
F . capita supra brunneo, fusco-tfauiolato; fronte superciliis, capitis lateribusque albis, maculis brunneis
notatis; cerviqe colli lateribusque brunneis albo-strigatis; dorso humerisque flavo-brunneis, fusco
subochreoque variegatis; mento albo, brunneo-notato; gutture, pectore, abdomineque nigro-brunneis;
fasciis maculisque albis atque irregularibus variegatis, plumis albo-marginatis. Caudd flavo-brunned,
fusco-tEeniolatd; rostro rubro-aurantio; pedibus aurantiis; oculis fuscis.
Longitudo 13 unc.
C olour, &c.—The upper surface of the head dark wood-brown, finely
barred with umber-brown; the front, the eyebrows, and the sides of the head
white and closely speckled with umber-brown; space immediately behind
each eye, and the ear-coverts light brown; back and sides of the neck dark
umber-brown, and variegated with short white streaks, from most of the
feathers being edged with white: some of the feathers of these parts are
marked, besides, with one or more imperfect white bars, and many of them
have the shaft of a bright chesnut hue. Back and shoulders yellowish brown,
and freely variegated with umber-brown and sienna yellow markings:—the
umber-brown in the form of longitudinal stripes along the middle of the
feather, and of delicate, zig-zag bars across the vanes :—the sienna yellow,
between the bars, disposed in the form of small stripes and irregular blotches.
The under parts are mottled-white and blackish brown: on the chin and
upper part of the throat, white is the predominant colour, and the dark
markings consist of small oval spots, one near the centre of each feather: on
the breast and belly the light and dark colours are nearly in equal proportions,
the central portion of each featherplfs black-brown, more or less
completely broken into angular bars by a series of irregular white spots
which occur on each side of the shaft, the margins and tips of all the feathers
white ; vent and under tail-coverts pale yellowish brown, variegated with
imperfect rusty-white and umber-brown bars; thighs rusty-white, irregularly
barred with pale brown. Primary quill coverts and the quill-feathers
broccoli-brown :—the outer vanes of the former and of some of the primary
quill feathers finely freckled with pale cream-yellow; the outer vanes of the
innermost primaries partially barred with light yellowish brown, and the
inner vanes faintly and sparingly speckled with the same colour; the
secondary and most of the tertiary quill feathers yellowish brown, each with
several broad umber-brown bars, the spaces between which are crossed by
numerous undulated, lines of umber-brown. Tail light yellowish brown,
crossed with numerous fine zig-zag umber-brown lines. The culmen between
the nostrils, the membrane covering the latter, and the edges of the mandibles *
* South African Quarterly Journal, 2nd Series, No. I. Part ii. page 48. November, 1833.