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transverse undulating black lines. Behind the legs is a 

 tranverse riband, striped with grey, black, white, and leaden 

 blue. Back, rather dark brownish black, glossed with green, 

 with an edging to each feather of a lighter shade of yellowish 

 brown, the edging becoming paler and more irregular on the 

 lower part. 



The wings have the first quill feather the longest; greater 

 wing coverts, dull bluish grey, tipped with white; lesser wing 

 coverts, bluish grey, edged with white; primaries, brownish 

 black; the wing spot on the outer webs of the secondaries is 

 dull but glossy green, with a margin of white bejow; tertiaries, 

 bluish grey. The scapular feathers are very elegant, being long 

 and of a lanceolate shape; the colour deep black, shaded into 

 grey at their lower edge, and with a narrow distinct line of 

 white running along the shaft. The tail, of fourteen feathers, 

 is dusky greyish brown; under tail coverts, mottled with 

 brownish black and yellowish white. Legs and toes, bluish 

 grey brown; webs, bluish grey brown. 



The female is less than the male; over the eye is an 

 indistinct streak of pale brown; head on the crown, and all 

 over, brown, with spots and lines of a darker shade; neck 

 on the back, brown, the feathers edged with white; chin and 

 throat, white. Breast, greyish white, variegated with two 

 shades of brown; below white; the sides pale brown, varied 

 with a darker shade; back, dark brown, with reddish brown 

 edges, and white tips to the feathers. Greater and lesser wing 

 coverts, dark greyish brown. The speculum very dull and 

 indistinct, and bordered on each side with white; tertiaries, 

 dark brown, the feathers tipped with white, and with reddish 

 brown edges to the feathers. 



The young male resembles the female till after the first 

 muult. 



