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length and breadth, and the crown between 

 these black bands is brown streaked with 

 black. The chin and throat are black. 

 The whole upper plumage, the visible 

 portions of the closed wings and the whole 

 lower plumage are olive-brown, every 

 feather margined with black on the sides, 

 but not at the tip. The tail and the first 

 ten quills of the wing are unmarked olive- 

 brown. The feathers under the tail are 

 deep black broadly tipped with white. 



Younger males have the quills of the 

 wing freckled and want the white patch 

 under the ear. 



The female has the forehead and a 

 band over the eye greyish pink, with 

 another black, but shorter, band above. 

 The crown of the head is cinnamon-brown 

 with a few black streaks. There is a white 

 spot in front of the eye and another behind, 

 with a small black patch under the front 

 white spot. The sides of the head and 

 the whole throat are greyish pink. The 

 whole upper plumage with the wings and 

 tail are cinnamon-brown, the feathers of 

 the hindneck with large black streaks, 

 those of the mantle and wings with a 

 triangular black patch chiefly on the inner 

 web, and those of the back and rump with 

 a large black triangular patch extending 



