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Adult female. Similar to the male but browner, and not of such а bluish slate-colour, the under 
surface being of a pale brown, with a few dusky blackish streaks on the throat: “bill orange-yellow ; 
feet yellow; iris dark brown ; eyelids orange” (E. A. Butler). Total length 9:75 inches, culmen 0*9, 
wing 4:85, tail 3:3, tarsus 1:3. 
Young. More dusky brown than the adults, and with narrow whitish shaft-streaks or triangular 
spots of buff on the wing-coverts; under surface of body light reddish-buff, mottled with dusky 
blackish edges to the feathers, which have also triangular mesial spots of buff or shaft-lines of 
pale buff. 
The adult specimens above described are in the Tweeddale and Seebohm Collections, from 
Khandeish, and the young, from Sambalpur, are in the Hume Collection. Тһе figures in the Plate 
are drawn from examples in the Seebohm Collection. ГЕ. B. 8.1 
