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 fadmg 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,
ruff or margin of the disk dark fulvous ; under surface

Upper surface tawny yellow, each feather broadly

 

with a dark brown spot at the inner angle of the eye ;
yellowish white, with a small spot of brown at the tip of each feather ; irides very dark brown ; bill horny ;

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 lite.