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Head moderate; body slender; bill horn color, lightest below, tipper mandible 

 broadest, slightly declinate at the tip; fore-head and loral space light red, crown, 

 occiput and cheeks black, eye encircled with red; back,scapulers and tail- coverts 

 ashy- grey, rump white; wings and tail brown, slightly margined with ashy-grey, pri- 

 marie shafts light brown, third quill longest, second and fourth about equal, first lon- 

 ger than the fifth, tail even,slightly attenuated or pointed; throat and fore-neck red, 

 fading as it extended on the breast, sides of the body dusky-grey, rest of lower 

 plumage white, length from bill to end of tail 4 inches, wing from flexure 2 7-12 

 tarsus 8-12, middle toe and claw 7-12, tarsus and toes slender, claws arched,much 

 compressed; acute ridge 4-12, gap 6-12. 





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