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ves.—P la t e " CII. ( F emale.)
C. pallide griseus, lineis, nigro-brunneis, transversis, longitudinalibusque instructus; tectricibus alarum
minoribus maculis subalbis notatis lineam obliquam formantibus; remigibus brunneo-rubris, aurantio-
rubro-fasciatis; gutture, amtice, fasciä. transversa albä, instructä; abdomine subrufo lineis brunneis
transversis variegato.
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudee 5 unc. 9 lin.; caudse 5 unc.
C olour.—The ground colour of the upper surface of the head, the hinder
surface of the neck, the interscapulars, the back, the tail coverts and the sca-
pulary feathers pearl-grey, variegated with longitudinal stripes, and fine,
transverse, waved lines of liver-brown, the stripes along the centre of the
head broadest and almost contiguous. The scapulars adjoining the wings
are marked with several, short, broad, oblique liver-brown bars and narrow
cream-yellow lines, and the inner ones with broad longitudinal liver-brown
-stripes. Ear coverts, feathers immediately behind them and those below
the lower eyelid, reddish-orange, freely freckled with liver-brown, and below
the last-mentioned feathers there is a distinct white stripe, which commences
at the angle of the mouth and terminates on the side of the neck ; below this
stripe the feathers are rusty-white, closely barred with narrow liver-brown
lines ; throat superiorly crossed by a broad white band, many of the feathers
barred with umber-brown ; behind this band the front and sides of the neck
are rusty white, barred with liver-brown ; lesser wing coverts umber-brown,
those nearest the bend of the wing finely barred with reddish orange, those
towards the quill feathers variegated with reddish orangé and cream-yellow
spots, in addition to the transverse bars. The cream-yellow spots are so
arranged as to form a sort of oblique spotted band across the wing. Primary
and secondary quill coverts umber-brown, narrowly barred and tipped with
cream-yellow ; primary quill feathers brownish red, barred with light reddish
orange, the bars more or less speckled with umber-brown stripes or spots ;
secondary and tertiary quill feathers umber-brown, the outer vanes freely