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white or very pale grey, both webs tipped 

 with blackish. The outer secondaries are 

 pure white with broad, black tips ; the 

 inner, brown ; the innermost, speckled 

 with white. The rump and the upper 

 tail-coverts are black ; the tail dark ashy. 



The adult female has a very broad 

 white, or pale rufous, band completely 

 encircling the bill, and a pale patch on 

 the ear-coverts. The head, neck, mantle 

 and breast are reddish brown, with the 

 edges of the feathers more or less paler, 

 and the feathers of the breast distinctly 

 margined with white. The upper part of 

 the abdomen [is white ; the lower part, 

 and the under tail-coverts brown, mottled 

 and vermiculated with greyish white. 

 The axillaries are white and also a great 

 part of the under wing-coverts. The sides 

 of the body are rich brown, mottled and 

 barred with greyish white. The back 

 and the scapulars are dark brown, very 

 irregularly and sparingly speckled and 

 vermiculated with grey. The upper wing- 

 coverts are plain brown. The quills of 

 the wing, both primaries and secondaries, 

 resemble those of the adult male, but the 

 innermost secondaries are not speckled 

 with white. 



The male, in post-nuptial plumage, is 



