As is the case with all the other members of the genus, the sexes present a marked difference in their 

 colouring', the female being destitute of those adornments of the head and neck and the deep grey and 

 chestnut of the under surface which render the male so remarkable. 



The male has the head and upper surface of an olivaceous brown, with a lighter stripe down the centre 

 of the head ; some of the feathers of the back have light-coloured shafts ; and nearly all the feathers of the 

 upper surface are crossed near the tip with a band of black, which, being divided by the light-coloured 

 shaft, has the appearance of double spots ; these are largest or most conspicuous on the centre of the back 

 and on the feathers of the wings nearest the body; forehead, stripe over the eye and the sides of the neck, 

 breast, and flanks deep bluish grey ; chin and throat deep black, within which, beneath each eye, a 

 moustache-like streak of white ; below the black, a crescent of white, the points of which are directed 

 upwards behind the eye, encircling this a narrow line of black ; centre of the abdomen, vent and under 

 tail-coverts rich deep chestnut-red ; tail-feathers mixed chestnut and grey ; bill black ; irides deep brown ; 

 legs bright yellow. 



The female is similar in the colouring and markings of the upper surface, but is darker on the head, has 

 the forehead and stripe over the eye buff instead of grey, the chin white (passing into a gorget of buff on 

 the breast), and all the under surface pale buff crossed with numerous crescentic bars of brownish black. 



The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size. The plant is the Anopsia peltata. 



