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son, the mantle and back streaked with dusky blackish centres to the 

 feathers ; rump and upper tail-coverts more uniform, with scarcely 

 any indications of dusky centres ; lesser wing-coverts ruddy brown ; 

 median and greater coverts dusky, edged with ruddy brown, with 

 pale rosy tips, forming a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged with ruddy brown, more rosy 

 on the primaries, the inner secondaries with pale rosy spots at the 

 ends, like the inner greater coverts ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged 

 with ruddy brown ; crown of head dull crimson, with longitudinal 

 dusky centres ; base of forehead varied with rose-coloured tips to 

 the feathers, more distinct over the eye, where they form a conspi- 

 cuous eyebrow ; lores, feathers round the eye, and upper part of 

 ear-coverts dark crimson ; remainder of ear-coverts, sides of face, and 

 cheeks rosy, the feathers tipped with pale pearly rose-colour ; throat 

 similarly coloured to the cheeks ; fore neck and breast dark crimson, 

 with dusky shaft-lines, the lower breast washed with rosy like the 

 abdomen, which is entirely rose-colour, with dusky shaft-lines ; sides 

 of body and flanks brown, washed with crimson ; thighs brown ; 

 under tail-coverts brown, washed with rosy and with dusky centres ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries dark ochreous brown, washed 

 with crimson ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : " bill 

 brown, the lower mandible greyish ; feet reddish grey ; iris reddish 

 chestnut " (A. David). Total length 5"5 inches, culmen Oo, wing 

 3, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 dark ochreous brown, streaked with dusky brown centres to 

 the feathers ; the head similarly streaked, but a little darker than 

 the back, the rump and upper tail-coverts nearly uniform ; lesser 

 wing-coverts dull ochreous brown ; median and greater coverts dusky, 

 edged externally with pale ochreous, especially at the tips, so as to 

 form a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, 

 edged with ashy ochreous ; quills dusky brown, edged with pale 

 ochreous, lighter along the edge of the primaries and towards the 

 end of the secondaries, which are pale-tipped like the greater coverts ; 

 tail-feathers dusk}' brown, edged with ochreous brown ; crown of 

 head like the back, but the streaks a little darker ; the forehead 

 slightly mottled with pale ochreous buff ; lores ashy ; a broad eye- 

 brow of ochreous buff, as also the eyelid ; ear-coverts dark brown ; 

 feathers below the eyes and cheeks ochreous buff, streaked with dark 

 brown ; under surface of body ochreous buff, broadly streaked with 

 black on the throat, more narrowly on the fore neck and breast, 

 which are a little browner ; abdomen clear ochreous buff, with obso- 

 lete dusky shaft-lines ; sides of body and flanks dark ochreous 

 brown, with narrow dusky shaft-streaks ; thighs ochreous brown ; 

 under tail-coverts pale ochreous, with lighter margins and dusky 

 centres ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale ochreous, with dusky 

 bases ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 

 5 - 5 inches, culmen Ooo, wing 3 - l, tail 2'3, tarsus 0*9. 



Some of the female specimens in the Hume Collection are much 



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