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shoulders (i) ; crown, paler clear grey-brown (2) ; fore- 

 head streak, lores, eyebrows, sides of head and neck, 

 breast, upper part of belly, rump and upper tail-coverts 

 dark vinous-red (3) ; tail feathers blackish-brown, the 

 outer ones bordered at the base with dull red ; lower 

 abdomen, sides of breasts and belly dull red, showing 

 (4) the bro\vnish-ash-grey basal halves of the feathers ; 

 vent and under tail-coverts pale yellowish-grey. The 

 whole breast is marked with numerous delicate white 

 spots, each of which has a narrow dark upper margin. 

 Under surface of wings is light ashy-grey, under wing- 

 coverts light yellowish-grey. Bill, a glossy deep-red, 

 with a delicate white mark from base of lower mandi- 

 ble to the nostril (5), ridge of each portion of bill 

 blackish-brown. Eyes grey, surrounded by a very 

 narrow yellow ring (6) ; feet brownish flesh-colour. 



In the female the forehead, crown, nape and the 

 whole of the rest of the upper parts are greyish-brown ; 

 lores and cheeks pale red ; upper tail-coverts and tail- 

 feathers as in the cock ; throat and under surface dull 

 red, the lower belly being isabelline-grey, and the sides 

 and breast of belly ash-grey, washed with reddish, 

 with here and there a white spot on the breast ; under 



The description iti the B. M. Cat. differs in some details from that given 

 by Dr. Rnss, whose description being based as he says on rather limited 

 observation, is not quite accurate in all it's details, but if thus corrected 

 vi^ill be found absolutely correct : 

 (i) "brown." B. M. Cat. 



(2) "crown, brown like the back." B. M. Cat. 



(3) "deep-pink." B. M. Cat. 



(4) "the red of the abdomen becomes paler on abdomen, flanks and 

 " thighs, which are pale brown washed with rosy pink." B. M. Cat. 



(5) This whitish mark was not present in any of my specimens, nor 

 is it noted in the Catalogue description. 



(6) "Iris pale du.sky brown (Heuglin); narrow eye-ring, grey." 



B. M. Cat. 



