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and nape on the sides, brown; chin, throat, and breast, white; 

 there is a dusky .hand across the upper part of the latter; 

 back, brown. The wings reach two inches beyond the end 

 of the tail; the second quill feather is the longest in the 

 wino-, the first feather a little longer than the third the 

 shafts of all black; greater and lesser wing coverts, primaries, 

 secondaries, and tertiaries, brown the two latter are very 

 short. The tail is forked, and the feathers, which are brown, 

 an- very stiff; under tail coverts, brown. The legs are 

 feathered with brown feathers; toes, orange brown; claws, 

 dark brown. 



The female differs in no perceptible respect from the male, 

 but is rather smaller in size. 



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