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black, with longitudinal wedge-shaped centres of white; axillaries and under wing-coverts dusky 
blackish, edged with chestnut; quills sepia-brown below, a little more ashy on the inner webs: 
“bill and feet yellow; iris dark brown; eyelid yellow " (7. C. Jerdon). Total length 10:5 inches, 
culmen 1:0, wing 5:55, tail 3°75, tarsus 1:25. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but much duller chestnut, with the wings and tail browner ; 
crown of head and neck darker ashy-grey than in the male, the crown and sides of face being dusky 
greyish-brown ; throat dull ashy, with a few dusky brown spots; remainder of under surface of body 
dull brownish-chestnut, the lower abdomen whitish ; under tail-coverts rufous-brown, with longitudinal 
white centres to the feathers; under wing-coverts and axillaries brownish-chestnut like the breast. 
Total length 9:5 inches, culmen 1:0, wing 5:45, tail 3:6, tarsus 1:25. 
Young. Dark brown, chestnut only on the lower back and rump, all the feathers of the upper 
surface centred with ochraceous-buff streaks; under surface of body white, mottled with black 
margins to the feathers, the sides of the body dark chestnut-brown. 
The male described is from Murree and is in the Tweeddale Collection, Тһе specimen figured 
is from Assam in the Seebohm Collection. Тһе female described and figured is in the Seebohm 
Collection: and the young bird is from Murree, where it was obtained by General G. A. L. Marshall 
in September ; it is in the Hume Collection. [R. В. 5.) 
