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The male has the top of the head and nape a light rufous, with ' 

 longitudinal stripes of black; forehead and sides of the head, with 

 the exception of a large oval patch of white extending from the eyes 

 backwards, black. The dark rufous collar of the neck having some 

 of its feathers tipped with an oval black spot with white edges, and 

 a broader band of black feathers marked conspicuously with pure 

 white round spots, occupy the upper part of the back; below these 

 bands the scapularies are well marked out with dark brown feathers, 

 broadly edged with light rufous; the rest of the back, upper tail 

 coverts, and tail feathers, most delicately pencilled with transverse 

 zigzag lines of black and white. The upper wing coverts are marked 

 out like the scapularies, while the long tertials are richly marked 

 with light rufous transverse bands, on a black brown ground, the 

 rufous more distinct on the outer webs. The primaries and 

 secondaries rich rufous, with transverse bands or spots of dusky 

 brown, more or less distinct. The throat and breast are pitchy 

 black, separated by the rich dark rufous collar round the neck; the 

 sides of the chest and all the lower part of the abdomen black, 

 with oval white spots, which become larger on the flanks and shaded 

 with rufous; bottom of abdomen light red, edged with white, while 

 the rich rufous of the neck is repeated on the feathers of the under 

 tail coverts, which are also fringed with white. The feathers on the 

 thighs are barred with black and white, mingled with pencillings of 

 rufous. Tail below dark brown, with their basal halves barred with 

 white. Beak black; legs and feet orange red; tarsi armed with a 

 spur. 



The female is a much plainer-marked bird. The forehead, and a 



faint trace on the back of the neck, red; top of the head hair brown, 



with darker longitudinal shades; scapularies and wing coverts dark 



brown, with light brown edges; the rest of the back and upper tail 



coverts "partridge grey,^' beautifully marked and pencilled with darker 



transverse bands of brown and white. Primaries black brown, with 



russet spots and transverse bands; the secondaries marked in the same 



way, but the colours lighter, and the bands broader. The throat 



creamy white, going off into yellow on the neck; sides of the head 



rufous, finely spotted with black about the ear coverts; chest and 



abdomen cream white, with triangular bars of black, and more or less 



tinged with rufous on the sides and flanks; lower part of abdomen 



dirty white; under tail coverts dark rich russet, with slight bars of 



black and yellow, and covered on their basal aspect on each side by 



two or three feathers of a yellowish white, barred with black; tail 



feathers dark brown, lightly barred with wavy bands of white. 



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