MIRAFRA SABOTA.—S mith.
A yes.—P late LXXXIX, F ig . 1. ( F emale.)
M. supra fusca, pluniis ferrugineo-marginatis; infra rubro- alba, pectore lateribusque rubro-aurantio-
tinctis; gutturis imo pectoreque fusco-conspersis; alis fuscis, pennis rufo-marginatis; rectricibus,
duabus mediis exceptis, profunde fuscis rufo-albo-marginatis, duabus mediis rubro-brunneis rubro-
aurantio-m arginatis; mandibuld superiore apiceque inferioris rubro-brunneis, hac versus basin
subflav&; pedibus subflavis cameo-tinctis.
LongituCo e rostri apice ad basin caudee 3 unc. 10 lin.; caudae 2 unc. 3 lin.
CoLouuB-The feathers of the upper surface of the head, of the back
and sides of the neck towards the body, of the interscapular region, and of
the back and rump umber-brown, broadly edged and tipped with clear
reddish orange, fading at their margins into rusty white or pale wood-brown ;
the feathers of the back and sides of the neck, towards the nape, umber-
brown, narrowly edged and tipped with rusty white or cream yellow. The
chin, throat, breast and belly rusty white, the former and the flanks
tinted more or less strongly with reddish orange, and the breast, and
the lower part of the throat, mottled with umber-brown stripes ; thighs pale
reddish orange. The lesser wing coverts, the primary and secondary quill
coverts, and the tertiary quill feathers, umber-brown, broadly edged and
tipped with a colour intermediate between orpiment and reddish orange,
which tint, in many of the feathers, fades at the very edges into sienna-yellow
or rusty wood-brown ; the primary and secondary quill feathers intermediate
between broccoli and reddish brown, the primaries, towards the base and at the
point, narrowly edged externally with wood-brown, the secondaries edged
externally throughout and tipped with sienna-yellow or rusty white, the
inner vanes of both, towards the quills, pale pearl-grey. The two middle
tail feathers reddish brown, edged and tipped with rusty reddish orange, the
rest of the tail feathers umber-brown, narrowly edged and tipped with wood