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around the auriculars, lower part of the back and upper 

 tail-coverts, throat, belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, are 

 pure white ; the crown of the head is black, and is relieved 

 by the edges of the feathers being yellowish; but the 

 auricular feathers streak from the base maxilla stretching 

 down the neck, surrounding the white of the throat, and 

 occupying the whole breast (the white of the other lower 

 part running up in the centre to a point), and the rump 

 deep black; the back, scapulars, and long tertials, are 

 varied with deep black, and clear brownish-orange, some 

 of the feathers being entirely of either colour, while others 

 have the basal half, or the shafts only, black, and these 

 colours do not seem to be disposed regularly, or the same 

 in different specimens ; the outer margins of the scapulars 

 are narrowly edged with white, which mixes conspicuously 

 in the general mass; the wings are dark brownish black, 

 the secondaries with a broad white tip forming a bar 

 across the wing; the base of the outer webs of the last 

 quills are also white, showing a triangular spot adjoining 

 to the bar; the upper tail-coverts lie over the tail, so as to 

 conceal the whole of the basal white, and make it appear 

 entirely dark with a white tip ; the feet and legs are bright 

 orpiment orange. 



