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the head and neck are black, without any 

 gloss, and slightly brownish in parts. 

 The chin-spot is present. There is also 

 a large patch of chestnut on each side of 

 the face, near the base of the upper 

 mandible. The chestnut of the breast 

 is not so bright as in the male, nor so 

 sharply defined from the white abdomen. 



A bird of this species, sexed as a male, 

 which died in the Zoological Gardens of 

 London in June, and the skin of which 

 is preserved in the British Museum, 

 appears to be in post-nuptial plumage. 

 It resembles the male in winter plumage 

 in many respects, having the back and 

 scapulars speckled and vermiculated ; and 

 the chestnut of the breast of a dark 

 colour and sharply defined from the white 

 of the abdomen, but it has the head of 

 the female and exhibits a large amount 

 of chestnut on the face and at the base 

 of the bill. 



Male : length about 18 ; wing 8| ; tail 

 2\. Female : length about 17^ ; wing 8 ; 

 tail 2^. According to Mr. Finn, the male 

 has the bill dark grey or greyish black 

 with a black nail and a grey patch at the 

 tip ; the female has the bill darker, with 

 the grey patch less distinct. The male 

 has white irides, but in one bird of this 



