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pale wood-brown, tinged with yellowish-grey ; the shafts 

 of the feathers being blackish-brown. Greater wing- 

 coverts, and secondary quills, blackish-brown, deeply 

 margined with chestnut-brown; the tips being white. 

 Quills dusky, with paler edges. Above the eyes is a 

 broad streak of pale wood-brown. Cheeks and ear- 

 coverts wood-brown ; the latter mixed with black. From 

 the corners of the under mandible, on each side of the 

 throat, is a streak of blackish-brown. Throat yellowish- 

 white. Lower part of the neck and breast sullied white, 

 with numerous dusky spots. Belly and vent white. 

 Flanks with oblong dusky streaks. Tail dusky ; the 

 exterior feathers having the outer web, and half of the 

 inner one, sullied white ; the next to it with a small 

 wedge-shaped white spot near the tip. Legs and toes 

 brown. Claws not much curved ; the hind one nearly 

 strait, and longer than the toe. 



The following is the description of the adult male, as gi- 

 ven in the Northern Zoology. 



u Head, chin, throat, and upper part of the breast, velvet 



black, margined with white ; from the ears a broad Male bird, 

 stripe of reddish-white, from the upper eyelid of each 

 side, joins the white bordering the ears ; and there are 

 rudiments of another in the middle of the bright chest- 

 nut nape. Rest of the upper plumage pale reddish- 

 brown, each feather striped in the middle with blackish. 

 Wing-coverts with two obsolete white bands; primaries 

 hair-brown, their exterior edges whitish. Belly and 

 under tail-coverts dusky- white ; sides of the breast and 

 flanks spotted with black. Bill bright lemon-yellow, 

 tipped with black. Legs pitch-black."" 



The female differs in having the chin greyish ; the black F ema i e . 

 plumage of the head and breast edged with pale-brown 

 and grey ; and the chestnut feathers of the nape fringed 

 with white. The white stripes are duller. 



