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smaller in size; the colour of the head is more mixed with 

 grey, and streaked with dark brown. The breast on the 

 upper part is spotted with dark brown, and the buff on the 

 lower part is less bright in colour. 



Young birds of the year resemble the female. 



M. Temminck and M. Viellot speak of different varieties of 

 this bird. The latter enumerates six different ones: one of 

 them has the head and neck green. Some, he says, are oc- 

 casionally met with entirely white, and others partially so; 

 others, again, of a uniform blackish brown, but this the 

 result of their being fed on hemp seed when kept in con- 

 finement. 



