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and spotted reddish brown, which extends over the 

 under jaw, where it is nearly joined to a similar 

 lengthened patch below the auriculars, which falls 

 down the sides of the neck; and this, together with 

 the sides of the head, are of a glossy deep green ; 

 the lower part of the neck and breast is deep red- 

 dish chesnut, palest in the middle, and spotted with 

 black; the upper plumage is darker than the under, 

 and both are pencilled with wavy brown lines, on a 

 cinereous and light ash ground: the lesser wing 

 coverts are dark cinereous, the greater the same, 

 but crossed at the tips with a very narrow double 

 bar or stripe of dull black and cinnamon brown; 

 the speculum, or beauty-spot, is glossy dark green, 

 crossed with a black bar or stripe, and white tips; 

 the secondaries, primaries, and tertials, are like the 

 coverts, more or less of a deep dingy, or dusky 

 cinereous brown; the scapulars are bordered by 

 two stripes of pale cinnamon and glossy dark 

 purple; the lower part of the back is dark brown; 

 the upper and under tail coverts, and two middle 

 tail feathers are black, glossed with green; those 

 on each side are nearly the same colour as the 

 quills ; they are somewhat freckled and pointed, 

 bordered and tipped with dingy white. The legs 

 and feet are rather short, and are yellow; legs be- 

 hind and the middle of the webs dusky. 



The general colour of the plumage of the female 

 is darkish brown, the feathers edged and tipped 

 with pale cinnamon ; the head and neck are of the 

 latter colour, but lighter, and pretty closely fur- 

 nished with dark narrow streaks. On the breast 

 the feathers near their tips, are dark brown, and 

 form roundish shaped spots : the coverts and specu- 



