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inner webs pale drab. The first, and some- 

 times the second secondary, is brown ; 

 the following secondaries are brown on 

 the inner web, black, tinged with bluish 

 green, on the outer. The last two feathers 

 of the speculum are a deep but slightly 

 glossy bluish green on the outer web. 

 All the feathers of the speculum are 

 narrowly tipped with white. The inner, 

 curved secondaries have the shafts white ; 

 the outer web black, margined with 

 white ; the inner web black next the shaft, 

 grey on the marginal half. The whole 

 breast is marked with broad, firm, black 

 and white bars, concentric with the 

 margins of the feathers. The abdomen 

 and the sides of the body are greyish 

 white, closely vermiculated with brown. 

 The tips of the feathers of the flanks 

 are truncated and broadly tipped with 

 white. The under tail-coverts are black 

 in the middle, buff at the sides. The 

 under wing-coverts are chiefly white, and 

 the axillaries pure white. 



The adult female has the whole head 

 and neck dark brown, streaked with 

 fulvous, the chin and the throat much 

 paler. The mantle, the back, and the 

 scapulars are dark brown, each feather 

 margined with rufous, and with some 



