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transverse undulating black lines. Behind the legs is a 
tranverse riband, striped with grey, black, white, and leaden 
blue. Back, rather dark brownish black, glossed with green, 
with an edging to each feather of a lighter shade of yellowish 
brown, the edging becoming paler and more irregular on the 
lower part. 
The wings have the first quill feather the longest; greater 
wing coverts, dull bluish grey, tipped with white; lesser wing 
coverts, bluish grey, edged with white; primaries, brownish 
black; the wing spot on “the outer aes of the secondaries is 
dull but glossy green, with a margin of white below; tertiaries, 
bluish grey. The scapular feathers are very elegant, being long 
and of a lanceolate shape; the colour deep black, shaded into 
grey at their lower edge, and with a narrow distinct line of 
white running along the shaft. The tail, of fourteen feathers, 
is dusky greyish brown; under tail coverts, mottled with 
brownish black and yellowish white. Legs and toes, bluish 
grey brown; webs, bluish grey brown. 
The female is less than the male; over the eye is an 
indistinct streak of pale brown; head on the crown, and all 
over, brown, with spots and lines of a darker shade; neck 
on the back, brown, the feathers edged with white; chin and 
throat, white. Breast, greyish white, variegated with two 
enes of brown; holon white; the Eides pale brown, varied 
with a darker shade; back, dark brown, with reddish brown 
edges, and white tips to the feathers. Greater and lesser wing 
coverts, dark greyish brown. The speculum very dul and 
indistinct, and bordered on each side with white; tertiaries, 
dark brown, the feathers tipped with white, and with reddish 
brown edges to the feathers. 
The young male resembles the female till after the first 
moult, 
