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and neck glossy blue black. The mantle 

 and the wing-coverts are black, each 

 feather with a white shaft and a pale grey 

 margin. The back and rump are glossy 

 black, each feather with a terminal white 

 fringe nearly a quarter of an inch in width. 

 The tail is black with the inner web of 

 the middle pair of feathers brownish. 

 The breast and upper belly are greyish 

 white, each feather black at the base, very 

 long and sharp-pointed. The remainder 

 of the lower plumage is smoky brown with 

 pale grey margins, the feathers more or 

 less sharply pointed. The first ten quills 

 of the wing are brown. 



The female has the head and crest 

 brown, the feathers with pale shafts. The 

 whole upper plumage is reddish brown, 

 the shafts white, each feather margined 

 with grey and very minutely but distinctly 

 stippled and vermiculated with black. 

 The middle pair of tail-feathers is wavily 

 marked with black and rufous, the others 

 are glossy black. The throat is greyish 

 brown with paler shaft-streaks. The whole 

 lower plumage is dark reddish brown with 

 paler shafts, each feather margined with 

 pale buff and minutely stippled with black. 

 The first ten quills of the wing are brown 

 with the outer webs mottled with buff. 



