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dark chocolate brown. The chin, throat, and breast have the 

 feathers edged with white. The band across the breast is 

 narrower, and its colour less pure, and clouded with reddish 

 brown and grey; the tips of the feathers are pale brown in 

 a crescent shape; back, dark chocolate brown. The wings, 

 which extend to the width of a foot and a half, have the 

 quill feathers margined with brownish grey. The under tail 

 coverts have a white line along the middle of the feathers. 



The young male resembles the adult female, but in the 

 young female the band across the breast is scarcely discernible. 

 The upper parts of the plumage have the edges of the 

 feathers brownish or olive grey, those on the shoulders with 

 a clear streak along the shaft of yellowish white, and the 

 quills more deeply margined with grey. Bill, deep brown, 

 orange at the corner; head, crown, neck on the back, and 

 nape, brownish black, the feathers tipped with black and 

 edged with dark reddish yellow; the neck in front is yellowish 

 white on the middle; chin, white. The throat is yellowish 

 white, sparingly marked with brownish black, which latter 

 colour trenches on the former as the bird advances in age. 

 The breast has every feather varied with alternate bars of 

 yellowish white and blackish olive brown, which gives it a 

 mottled appearance; the crescent is brownish white, each 

 feather with a crescent-shaped dusky line near the tip. Back, 

 brownish black, the feathers tipped with black, and edged 

 with dark reddish yellow. Greater wing coverts, edged with 

 pale yellowish grey; lesser wing coverts, with a central 

 streak of yellowish; primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, 

 dark olive brown, edged with yellowish white or grey. The 

 tail has the outer feathers edged with pale grey, with which 

 all the feathers are tipped; under tail coverts, with a longi- 

 tudinal white spot along the shaft, and their tips yellowish. 

 Toes and claws, pale brown. 



White varieties are said to have occurred, and specimens 

 with white feathers about the head have been occasionally 

 met with. 



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B. FAWCKTT, ENGRAVER AND PRINTER, URIFF1KLD. 



