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with the distal half of the inner web white — the proportion 

 of white increasing in each feather from within outward ; 

 chin and throat velvet black ; sides of the neck, the breast 

 and belly, pale nutmeg-brown ; vent and lower tail-coverts 

 dull white : legs, toes and claws, pale wood-brown. 



The whole length is fully seven inches ; from the carpal 

 joint to the end of the wing, four inches : the second, third 

 and fourth primaries very nearly equal, but the third rather 

 the longest ; the fifth an eighth of an inch shorter than the 

 fourth ; the sixth three-eighths of an inch shorter than the 

 fifth : the tail very slightly forked. 



In the female, the black frontal line and lores are much 

 less conspicuous than in the male, and the patch on the chin 

 is smaller ; the colours generally are much less bright, and 

 more blended — the top of the head, rump and tail-coverts in 

 particular wanting the warm tint of the male ; the white 

 of the larger wing-coverts is more mixed with brown, and 

 the outer webs of the tertials are bluish-grey. 



In the young, and in the adults during winter, the bill is 

 of a pinkish flesh-colour, inclining to pale brown on the 

 ridge ; the head, neck, and upper parts, yellowish olive- 

 brown ; the bar on the wing less conspicuous ; the throat 

 yellow, bounded by a small line of brown spots, indicating 

 the outline of the black gular patch in the adults ; lower 

 parts pale yellowish-brown, each feather tipped with darker 

 brown . 



