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in the main with the above description. It has however 
partly lost the rust-red on the checks, and the crop 
and flanks are more spotted. The feathers of the back, 
head, and nape are dark blackish brown, bordered with 
g'reenish grey, lighter on the head and nape ; upper part 
of tail dark brown; underneath the throat and part of 
the cheeks and crop russet red, with a circlet of longi- 
tudinal dark spots on the crop. The abdomen, flanks, 
and under tail coverts creamy white, with a tinge of 
russet, the flanks being thickly covered with long lon- 
gitudinal brown spots. Wings and tail underneath glossy 
mud-brown; tarsi and toes yellowish brown. The four 
first primaries of nearly equal length, the fourth shortest ; 
tertials very long, the longest going beyond the end of 
primaries. Upper and lower wing coverts, as well as 
tertials, broadly bordered with light yellowish or creamy 
white. The tail is emarginate, dark brown above, and 
earthy brown below ; first lateral quill white, with a 
dusky patch on lower half of inner web; second quill 
brown, with a triangular white patch at the tip, exactly 
like the drawing of these two feathers given by Mid- 
dendorff. 
The female is half an inch less in length, and has 
the upper plumage precisely the same as the male; below 
the russet is confined to the throat and cheeks, wUile 
the front of the neck and crop are thickly covered with 
rich brown longitudinal patches and spots, contrasting 
with the rich cream-coloured ground of the under j)arts ; 
the under tail coverts have the light yellow russet or 
cream-colour more pronounced than the abdomen; upper 
mandible and anterior half of lower dark brown; basal 
half of lower mandible yellowish; tarsi yellowish; feet 
darker. 
My figures of this bird are taken from specimens 
