Upper surface tawny yellow, each feather broadly terminated with brown and a small white spot at the
tip, or brown with a white terminal spot and tawny at the base; primaries and secondaries fulvous yellow,
distinctly barred with brown, freckled-on their outer margins with pale or greyish brown, and fading into
white on the margins of their inner webs; tail buffy yellow, fading into white on the outer feathers, or white
crossed by four dark brown bars and freckled with a lighter tint at the tip; facial disk whitish or buffy white,
with a dark brown spot at the inner angle of the eye ; ruff or margin of the disk dark fulvous; under surface
yellowish white, with a small spot of brown at the tip of each feather; irides very dark brown ; bill homy;
legs yellowish.
In the youthful state the facial disk and markings are deep tawny; the body is clothed in a lengthened
greyish buff down; and the feet and claws are dull flesh-colour.
The Plate represents an adult and a young bird, of the size of life.