BEARDED TI. 387 
sides tinged with salmon colour: the flanks fawn colour ; 
under tail-coverts jet black ; legs, toes, and claws, black. 
The whole length rather more than six inches; from the 
carpal joint to the end of the wing two inches and one quar- 
ter; the first feather very short ; the second feather equal 
in length to the fifth, but shorter than the third ; the fourth 
the longest in the wing. 
In the female the head is of a dull brownish fawn colour 
where the male is pearl grey, and the feathers in the situa- 
tion of the moustache are of the same colour as those of the 
cheek ; the female has sometimes been described as wanting 
the whiskers; but the elongated feathers are present, 
though not coloured black; the plumage of the female is in 
other respects like that of the male, but the colours are not 
quite so delicate and pure; the under tail-coverts in the 
female are fawn colour. 
In young birds about three weeks old the tertials want 
the broad white inner webs; the wing and tail-feathers are 
patched with black ; the tail-feathers short, and but slightly 
rounded ; the whole of the under surface of the body fawn 
colour; the legs light brown. At this age young males 
have an indication of the whisker in a small black line 
reaching from the base of the beak to the eye. 
