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The male has a black band on the 

 forehead with some white in front and 

 behind it ; there is a black spot over the 

 eye, and the crown is buff mottled with 

 black. The throat, the sides of the head 

 and the whole neck are yellowish buff, 

 bounded below by a broad chestnut band 

 succeeded by a wider yellowish band. 

 The upper plumage is black barred with 

 buff on the back, rump and tail, and with 

 white on the wings ; a large patch on the 

 wing being plain buff. The quills of the 

 wing are dark brown. The belly and 

 sides of the body are barred with black 

 and white, the black bars being everywhere 

 about as broad as the white ones. The 

 feathers under the tail are buff barred 

 with black, and the small feathers on the 

 tarsus are pale buff barred with brown. 



The female has the forehead and crown 

 fulvous mottled with black. The whole 

 upper plumage, the tail and the visible 

 portions of the closed wings are fulvous 

 closely barred with black; a large patch 

 on the wing plain fulvous. The quills of 

 the wing are dark brown. The throat and 

 the sides of the head are yellowish buff. 

 The lower plumage is barred with black 

 and pale fulvous, the black bars being 

 much narrower than the fulvous interspaces 



