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with pale fulvous. The rump is dark 

 brown, the feathers margined with ashy. 

 The upper tail-coverts and the tail-feathers 

 are dark brown, margined with pale ful- 

 vous. The upper wing-coverts are bluish 

 grey, the lower series very broadly tipped 

 with white, forming a conspicuous wing- 

 bar. The outer scapulars are bluish grey ; 

 the inner, which are long and pointed, 

 are chiefly bluish black with a conspicuous 

 white line along the shaft. The outer 

 webs of the primaries and the tips of the 

 inner are brown margined with grey ; the 

 remainder of the inner webs are drab ; the 

 shafts are white. The outer secondaries 

 are brown on the inner web, pale metallic 

 greyish green on the outer, both webs very 

 broadly tipped with white. The next long 

 secondary is grey margined with white ; 

 and the remaining quills are brown with 

 paler shafts and very narrow grey mar- 

 gins. 



The adult female has the forehead and 

 crown glossy brown, the feathers with 

 minute fulvous tips and margins. The 

 hindneck is similar, but of a lighter brown. 

 The sides of the head and of the neck 

 and the foreneck are greyish white, mottled 

 and streaked with brown, with a faint 

 indication of a band over the eye. The 



