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ciinit, being tinged with yellowish -red behind ; below it is a 

 broad band or patch of black, including the auricular coverts, 

 which are streaked with brown. The quills are dusky brown, 

 margined with light yellowish-red, the coverts darker. When 

 the wing is expanded, three white spots appear upon it : a large 

 patch including some of the small coverts and the basal portions 

 of the nearer secondary quills ; another on the edge of the wing 

 formed by the basal part of the primary coverts ; and a smaller 

 formed by the basal part of the outer primary quills. But 

 when the wing is closed, the first of these only is seen. The 

 rump is yellowish-red, its dusky spots much smaller than those 

 of the back ; the tail dusky brown, its basal half white, but 

 only a fourth of the two middle feathers of that colour, the 

 shafts of all dusky. A white band passes from the throat down 

 the side of the neck, under the black patch ; the fore-neck and 

 anterior part of the breast are light yellowish-red, and the rest 

 of the lower parts are reddish- white tinged with grey, except- 

 ing the axillar feathers which are white, the lower wing-coverts, 

 which are dusky, broadly margined with whitish, and the tibial 

 feathers, which are also dusky in their basal portion. 



Length to end of tail 5^ inches ; extent of wings 9:i ; wing 

 from flexure 2{^ ; tail l^S ; bill along the ridge j%^ along the 

 edge of lower mandible ^\^ ; tarsus ^'| ; first toe j'^, its claw ^^ ; 

 second toe j|, its claw j| ; third toe ^"g, its claw j^ ; fourth 

 toe J I, its claw /g. 



Female. — The female is scarcely inferior in size to the 

 male, and is coloured in the same manner, but differs in the 

 brightness of the tints. The dark spots on the back are broader, 

 and of a much lighter brown. The ear-coverts are dull reddish- 

 brown, the longitudinal white bands on the neck are narrower, 

 the lower parts paler, and the white patch on the wings is con- 

 fined to the tips of some of the small coverts. The tongue is five- 

 twelfths of an inch long. CEsophagus an inch and three quarters 

 long ; stomach eight-twelfths ; intestine six inches and a half; 

 coeca one-twelfth. 



Length to end of tail oj inches ; extent of wings 9 x% ; wing 

 from flexure 2{^ ; tail Iji ; bill along the ridge ^^^ ; tarsus i"|; 

 middle toe and claw ^§. 



