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the eye is a greyish-white band, margined beneath with 

 black. On the hind neck is a broad half collar of pale 

 red, of which each feather has a central brownish-black 

 line, or lanceolate mark, near the tip. The upper parts 

 in general are of a deep greyish-blue, the rump and 

 tail of a lighter and purer tint, each feather with a cen- 

 tral line of black. The edge of the wing is tinged with 

 red ; the alula and primary coverts dark greyish-brown, 

 the outer feather of the former marked on the edge 

 with white spots, of the latter broadly barred with 

 white ; all with large greyish-white marks on the inner 

 webs. Primary quills blackish-brown, tinged with 

 grey ; outer margin of the first spotted with white ; se- 

 condary quills mostly of the same colour as the back ; 

 the inner webs of both sets of quills beautifully marked 

 with transverse elliptical spots of white. The tail is 

 light bluish-grey, Avith five apparent bars of brownish- 

 black, the last bar an inch in breadth ; the tips white, 

 with a central black line. The real number of dark 

 bars is six on the middle, and eight on the lateral fea- 

 thers. The throat is white ; the rest of the lower parts 

 white tinged with yellowish-red, which tint prevails on 

 the sides of the neck and breast, each feather with the 

 shaft and spot towards the end dark brown, the mark- 

 ings on the fore-neck being linear, on the breast lanceo- 

 late, on the sides broader, but all longitudinal. The 

 abdomen is without markings, but each of the lower 

 tail-coverts has a central streak. The tibial feathers 

 are light yellowish-red, the short Inner ones pure, the 

 outer with narrow lanceolate brown central markings. 

 The lower wing-coverts are variegated with reddish- 

 brown and greyish-white, the latter colour being on the 



