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nearlj r to the nape, chin, throat, and a border round the black 

 cheek stripe, abdonien, vent, lower tail-coverts, axillaries, wing- 

 lining, nearly the whole of the outer web of the exterior laterals, 

 and a portion of those of the penultimate ones, and nearly 

 the whole of the outer web of the first primary, pure white ; 

 lower breast, sides, and flanks white, tinged with very pale 

 slightly vinaeeous greyish brown ; centre of crown of head, 

 nape, back and sides of the neck, back and scapulars, pale 

 greyish brown ; some of the feathers inconspicuously and 

 narrowly darker centred, and the nape and back, and sides of 

 the neck distinctly tinged with vinaeeous ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts pale fulvous fawn ; the upper tail-coverts some- 

 what conspicuously brown shafted; tail, central feathers hair 

 brown, conspicuously and broadly margined with fulvous fawn, 

 paling towards the edges ; lateral tail-feathers black, except, 

 as already described, faintly margined towards the tips with 

 fulvous fawn ; quills greyish brown; third, fourth, and fifth 

 primaries blackish towards the tips ; outer web of first primary 

 white, other primaries narrowly margined white and tipped 

 with fulvous fawn; secondaries narrowly margined and tipped 

 with white ; tertiaries somewhat darker brown at the base, 

 but margined and tipped with fulvous fawn like the central 

 tail-feathers ; primary greater coverts and lesser coverts more 

 or less broadly tipped and margined with grey brown, tinged 

 with vinaeeous. 



Adult Female. — Killed on the same date. — Similar to male, 

 but with the faint striations of the back of neck and back, &c., 

 almost entirely obsolete, brighter vinaeeous tinge on crown, 

 nape, back, and coverts, less black on the breast, more white 

 on the two outer tail-feathers, and the central tail-feathers near- 

 ly wholly rufous fawn. 



Young Male. — Killed same date. — Differs from the adult 

 in having all the lateral tail-feathers more or less conspicuously 

 tipped with white ; the breast white, surmounted by only a nar- 

 row line of black ; the chin, throat, and eye-streak tinged with 

 yellow ; the cheek stripe, and lateral crown stripes, yellowish 

 white ; each feather with one or more narrow dusky black bars 

 towards the tips ; the vinaeeous tinge on the wing-coverts is 

 even stronger than on those of either of the adults. 



Young Female. — Killed the same date. — Wants the vinaeeous 

 tinge of the plumage almost entirely ; like the young male 

 has only a narrow black band across the upper breast; the 

 frontal black band, as well as the black bands across the front 

 of the crown and on either side of it, are wanting, and the 

 cheek stripe and lores, though partly black, have all the feathers 

 broadly tipped with yellowish white; the quills are paler 



