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gins of light reddish-brown, while those of the sides of the 

 head and neck are edged with greyish-white ; the least wing- 

 coverts are of a deeper orange, and the greater wing-coverts 

 and tertials are tipped and edged with *he same colour, 

 which in a less degree tinges the upper tail-coverts. The 

 rest of the plumage is much the same as in summer except 

 that the tail-feathers are edged with greyish-white, and the 

 tint of the throat and upper part of the breast is deeper, 

 almost approaching to a dull orange. 



The female changes much less with the season, and has 

 the bill dull horn-colour, darkest at the tip : the feathers of 

 the top of the head and upper part of the back are dark 

 brown, but so broadly bordered with light hair-brown as to 

 seem chiefly of the latter hue spotted with the darker shade ; 

 the lores and ear-coverts dull mouse-colour passing into 

 ashy-grey on the sides of the neck ; the patch on the nape 

 is pale brownish-grey; the wings are marked much as in 

 the male, but the orange tints are very dingy, and the black 

 much less deep, as is also the case with the tail ; the second- 

 aries are outwardly edged with dull yellow ; the rump is 

 mixed with, and the upper tail-coverts are wholly, blackish- 

 grey ; from each corner of the lower mandible there runs a 

 short streak of blackish-brown ; the chin, throat and upper 

 part of the breast are reddish fawn-colour, deepening on the 

 sides of the breast to a very dingy orange ; the belly is dull 

 white and the lower tail-coverts are tinged with rufous. 



The young on leaving the nest have the head and back 

 greyish-brown, deepening to blackish-brown on the sinciput 

 and on eitlier side of the nuchal patch, which is greyish- white; 

 the least wing-coverts are orange-brown ; the next series 

 dull black, tipped with dull white ; the greater wing-coverts 

 also black, tipped with pale buff ; the wing-quills black — the 

 primaries and secondaries edged narrowly with yellow, the 

 tertials broadly with orange-brown ; the tail-coverts and tail- 

 quills black, broadly tipped with light reddish-brown ; the 

 chin greyish-white ; the throat and upper part of the breast 

 dull fawn-colour, deeper in tint on the sides ; the belly and 

 lower tail-coverts greyish- white. 



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