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oblong patch, the upper part of which is blackish rusty brown, 
and the lower yellowish brown; nape, white; chin and throat, 
white; breast above, deep chocolate blackish brown, below 
white, the sides tinged with grey. Back on the upper part, 
dark chocolate brown, on the lower black. 
Greater wing coverts, dusky; lesser wing coverts, chocolate 
brown; primaries, dusky; the speculum yellowish. brown with 
the edge lighter; tertiaries, white. Tail, chocolate brown, 
except the two long middle feathers, which are dusky, and 
the outer ones, which are white; upper tail coverts, blackish 
on the middle part, that is, the four central feathers, and 
white on the sides, the remaining ones brown deeply margined 
with white, except the outermost, which are entirely white. 
The two middle feathers are narrow in shape, and three 
inches and a half longer than the others, in all nine inches 
in length; under tail coverts, white. Legs and toes, greenish 
or yellowish ash grey colour; the inner toes and the small 
ones behind are margined with small lateral webs; claws, 
black; webs, blackish. 
The female has the bill blackish grey, the upper mandible 
orange yellow across the middle. Head on the front and 
sides, greyish white, on the back cinereous; crown, dark 
purple brown, as is a patch towards the back of the side 
of the head; neck, dull white; chin and throat, dark purple 
brown; breast above, deep reddish brown, the edges of the 
feathers darker, below white; back, dusky brownish black. 
Greater and lesser wing coverts, margined with brownish 
yellow and greyish white. Tail, purple brown. Legs and 
toes, grey, the joints darker; webs, dark grey. 
Sir Wilham Jardine states that there 1s an extraordinary 
variation in the summer and winter dress of this bird. In 
a specimen procured in summer the forehead and sides of 
the head, brown; crown, black; back of the head, white; 
neck, deep black, a few white feathers on the front; chin, 
white; breast, deep black, the sides white. Back on the 
upper part, black, with broad margins of reddish brown, and 
a few white feathers intermixed; on the lower part, deep 
brownish black. ‘The secondaries have the outer webs tinted 
with reddish brown, forming an indistinct speculum. Tail, 
deep brownish black; upper tail coverts, deep brownish black; 
under tail coverts, white. 
He adds, in winter the bill is black at the base, the tooth 
black, behind it is a deep band of lake red; the forehead and 
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