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something like that of a cock, and streaked with yellowish 

 brown; wing quills barred with black and bright rust; tail round- 

 ed, extending about an inch beyond the tips of the wings; it 

 consists of ten feathers, the four middle ones are powdered with 

 various tints of ferruginous, and elegantly marked with fine zig- 

 zag lines and large herring-bone figures of black; exterior edges 

 of the three outer feathers barred like the wings; their interior 

 vanes for two-thirds of their length are pure snowy white, mar- 

 bled with black and ferruginous at the base; this white spreads 

 over the greater part of the three outer feathers near their tips; 

 across the throat is a slight band or mark of whitish; breast, 

 black, powdered with rust; belly and vent lighter; legs feath- 

 ered before nearly to the feet, which are of a dirty purplish flesh 

 colour; inner side of the middle claw deeply pectinated. 



The female differs chiefly in wanting the pure white on the 

 three exterior tail feathers, these being more of a brownish cast. 



