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the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts darker than the 

 back, the feathers being blackish with ashy-grey margins ; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, with paler edges ; wing-coverts delicate 

 lavender-grey, the greater coverts broadly tipped with white, 

 forming a broad band across the wing and making the upper 

 border of the speculum ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts ashy- 

 brown, with rather broad white margins ; quills blackish, more 

 ashy on the inner web ; secondaries dusky-brown, externally 

 dull metallic-green and broadly tipped with white, forming the 

 lower border to the green speculum ; inner secondaries brown 

 edged with whitish, and externally ashy near the base, the 

 innermost blue-grey ; the adjoining scapulars long and slightly 

 sickle-shaped, black with a slight greenish gloss, and relieved 

 by a well-defined white longitudinal streak along the shaft; 

 crown of head blackish, extending to the nape ; a few pale shaft- 

 streaks on'the forehead ; from above the eye a broad band of 

 white skirting the black ; lores, sides of face, and throat deep 

 vinous-red, with numerous tiny shaft-streaks of white ; the fore- 

 neck and breast sandy-buff, thickly barred with lines and 

 circular marks of blackish ; abdomen white, or with a buff 

 tinge, especially on the under tail-coverts, which are mottled 

 and streaked with brown centres ; sides of body white, with 

 fine cross-bars of greyish-black, with a double band of white 

 and blue-grey divided by a black line on each side of the lower 

 flanks ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the edge of the 

 wing bluish-grey ; bill black ; feet greyish-brown ; iris hazel. 

 Total length, 16 inches; culmen, 1*55; wing, 7-3; tail, 27; 

 tarsus, i*o. 



Adult Female. Different from the male. General colour 

 above dark brown, with rufescent edges to the feathers ; lower 

 back and rump somewhat darker, with whitish margins ; upper 

 tail-coverts brown, edged and barred with rufescent or buffy- 

 white ; tail-feathers similar to those of the male ; wing-coverts 

 light brown, washed with ashy-grey; the greater coverts margined 

 with white, forming a white wing-bar ; quills dark brown, the 

 secondaries blackish, tipped with white ; crown of head minutely 

 streaked with brown and buffy-white, as also the sides of the 

 face and neck, becoming lighter on the hind-neck; an indistinct 

 eyebrow of dull white ; chin and throat white ; lower throat 

 longitudinally streaked with minute brown centres to the 



