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Adult male. General colour above chestnut, the mantle inclining to creamy-white so as to 
separate the black head from the back; scapulars chestnut, the longer ones blackish towards the 
ends; the lesser marginal wing-coverts ashy-brown ; median and greater coverts and rest of the 
wings and tail black; crown of head and hind-neck, sides of face and sides of neck, as well as 
the entire throat and centre of fore-neck, breast, abdomen, and sides of body, chestnut, the chest 
ashy-white, extending up the sides of the fore-neck and uniting with the pale mantle ; thighs dull 
rufous ; under tail-coverts black with rufous edgings; axillaries dull rufous, blackish towards the 
base; under wing-coverts black, with rufous margins; quills dusky brown below, slightly more ashy 
along the inner webs: * bill yellow; feet, toes, and claws dark horn-colour, the soles paler; iris 
dark brown " (Prjewalski). Total length 11 inches, culmen 1:05, wing 6:2, tail 4:65, tarsus 1-4. 
Adult female. Differs from the male in being ashy-brown instead of chestnut, the brown colour 
being slightly washed with rufous-ochre ; wing-coverts and quills dark sepia-brown, with paler edges 
of ashy-brown, the inner secondaries ashy-brown externally; tail brown ; entire crown of head and 
hind-neck brownish-black; sides of face dark ashy-brown, the lores and feathers below the eye 
mottled with ashy-whitish spots, and the ear-coverts streaked with whitish shaft-lines; cheeks brown, 
with rather broad black streaks; under surface of body dull ashy-brown, lighter on the throat, which 
shows a few blackish streaks and a distinct dusky malar line; fore-neck and chest darker ashy-brown ; 
centre of breast, abdomen, and sides of body pale rufous-ochre ; under tail-coverts dusky-brown, with 
rufous edges; under wing-coverts and axillaries dull ashy-brown, edged with rufous on the extreme 
margins: “bill horn-colour, yellowish towards the tip” (Prjewalski). Total length 10:5 inches, 
culmen 0:95, wing 5:7, tail 4:0, tarsus 150. 
Young males, according to Dr. Pleske, resemble the old females, but have the blackish colour 
of the head and hind-neck distinctly and sharply marked off from the colour of the back, and there 
are other differences of shade. A specimen in the British Museum, which has not quite completed 
its moult, has longitudinal buff centres to the feathers, showing that the nestling it striped on the 
upper surface. Dr. Pleske states that, as in M. gouldi, the colours of the male and female nestlings 
show distinct characteristics. 
Тһе male and female described аге іп the Seebohm Collection, the former obtained on the 
Upper Chuanche, and the female in Kan-su. Тһе latter is figured in the Plate, and the figure of 
the male is from a Kan-su specimen in the Seebohm Collection. [R. В. 8.) 
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