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of white before and behind the eye ; back of the neck, the 

 shoulders, back, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 

 hair-brown, the plumage smooth and blended ; wing-fea- 

 thers greyish black, with a margin of wood-brown on the 

 outer web ; tail-feathers chestnut ; breast pearl-grey ; belly, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts, fawn-colour ; feathers of the 

 sides, flanks, and thighs, transversely barred with pearl- 

 grey, white, black, and fawn-colour ; legs and toes red, the 

 former with a blunt rounded knob in the situation of a 

 spur ; the claws brown. 



The whole length is thirteen inches and a half. From 

 the carpal joint to the end of the wing, six inches and one- 

 quarter ; the first quill-feather as long as the sixth, but 

 both shorter than the second, third, fourth, or fifth, which 

 are nearly equal, and the longest in the wing. 



The female is rather smaller than the male; but does 

 not differ much, except that the plumage is not quite so 

 bright in colour, and she has no rounded spur-like knob on 

 the legs. 





