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red, the sides brownish or yellowish grey, but all with a 

 shade of pink; back, brownish grey, inclining to pale yellowish 

 brown on its lower part. 



The wings extend to the width of eight inches; the quills 

 are eighteen in number; the first is very short, the second 

 rather shorter than the third, which and the fourth are of 

 nearly equal length, and at the same time the longest in the 

 wings: underneath, the wings are grey; greater and lesser 

 wing coverts, widely edged with yellowish brown; primaries, 

 secondaries, and tertiaries, blackish brown, edged with greyish 

 or yellowish brown, the latter the most widely so. The tail, 

 rather long, blackish brown, the outer feather on each side 

 with an oblique longitudinal band of greyish white extending 

 over the outer half of the inner web and the whole of the 

 outer one; the tips of the next three feathers are also whitish; 

 underneath, the tail is grey. Legs, toes, and claws, bluish 

 grey. 



The female is slightly smaller; she resembles the male in 

 appearance, but the sides of the head are paler in colour, the 

 crown, the neck on the back, and nape have the grey tinged 

 with brown, the back and upper parts more tinged with 

 yellowish brown, and the breast with grey. 



In the young the eye is dark coloured. 



VOL. IV. 



