dish brown, broad behind and narrow in front, into which pass two streaks of the same hue, one from below the angle of the mouth, the other from above and behind the eye; throat and space between these streaks dull white; across the breast a broad gorget of scale-like greyish feathers, each crossed by a broad band of black ; below this gorget a series of whitish feathers without bands ; at the back of the neck a broad crescent of grey, below which is a series of slaty feathers minutely freckled with buff; shoulders grey, minutely freckled with black; upper surface brownish grey, minutely freckled with black and with a broad stripe of dull buf down the margin of each feather; greater wing-coverts, tertiaries and scapularies brownish grey, minutely freckled with black and with a broad mark of chestnut-brown on the outer and a smaller mark of the same hue on the inner web, each fading into buff near the tip; primaries white, largely tipped with at the extremity, and minutely freckled with black ; tail grey on the inte- eckled with black and merging into a broad patch of the same minutely freckled with buffy brown, the feathers brownish grey, passing into buff rior, webs reddish, on the outer ones fr hue, the tip being reddish; under surface slate-grey, of the sides of the breast and flanks of a paler hue than on the centre and abdomen, and on each a double stripe of chestnut and black along their margins, forming a series of stripes on those parts of the body; vent and under tail-coverts white; thighs dark grey ; bill dark horn-colour; irides dark brown; legs and feet red. The figure, taken from a drawing by Mr. Wolf, is about three-fourths of the natural size.