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The chin, throat, breast, belly, and under tail-coverts, white ; 

 legs, toes, and claws, black. 



The whole length of the male here described was seven 

 inches and a half. The length from the carpal joint to the end 

 of the wing-feathers, four inches : the first wing-feather less 

 than half the length of the second ; the third, fourth, and 

 fifth, longer than the second ; the third the longest of the 

 whole. 



The female has the head and neck dull red ; the scapulars 

 dirty white; the black colour of the back mixed with brown ; 

 the wing-coverts edged with red ; the breast dirty white ; the 

 feathers of the flanks reddish tipped with brown. 



The young bird of the year is reddish brown above, with 

 brown transverse lines ; wings and tail brownish black ; un- 

 derneath dirty white, with greyish transverse lines. 



The young male in the British collection of Birds in the 

 British Museum, which has been already referred to as hav- 

 ing been killed in Kent, and a specimen of a young female in 

 the Museum of the Zoological Society, which bird belonged 

 to the collection of Mr. Vigors ; both these, apparently in 

 the plumage of the second or third year, are very much alike, 

 and may be thus described : Head, and nape of the neck, red ; 

 back and wings hair brown, without any transverse lines ; 

 scapulars and edges of the tertials yellowish white ; rump 

 inclining to grey ; tail-feathers clove brown ; all the under 

 surface of the body dull white, tinged with red, but without 

 bars ; beak, legs, and toes, dark brown. Of this last pair of 

 birds, the female is the smaller. 



In the illustration at the head of this article, the lower 

 figure represents an adult male bird, the upper figure is that 

 of a young bird of the year. 



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