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hole scraped in the ground under the 

 shelter of a bush or stone or at the foot 

 of a tree. The eggs are buff, speckled 

 with reddish brown, and measure from 

 1*85 to 2*29 in length, and from 1-39 to 

 1*57 in breadth. 



The male has the middle and shorter 

 feathers of the crest buff, the lateral and 

 longer feathers, together with the whole 

 head, glossy black, and a large patch of 

 white on each side of the neck. The 

 whole upper plumage and the wings are 

 ashy, each feather with a black streak 

 down the middle. The quills of the 

 wing are dark brown, except the outer 

 web of the second to the sixth, which is 

 rufous. The middle tail-feathers are chest- 

 nut tipped with grey ; the others have the 

 inner web black and the outer web chest- 

 nut at the base and black towards the 

 end and the whole feather tipped with 

 white. The foreneck, the breast and the 

 belly are rich chestnut. The sides of the 

 breast and the sides of the body are ashy 

 streaked with black like the upper plumage. 

 The feathers under the tail are deep 

 chestnut tipped with white. 



The female has the whole upper plumage 

 and visible portion of the closed wings 

 rufous buff much mottled and blotched 



