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below, ashy оп the inner webs: bill and feet yellow (іп skin). Total length 11 inches, culmen 1-05, 
wing 5:6, tail 4:2, tarsus 1:4. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but decidedly lighter in colour, the grey of the head not so 
dark nor the chestnut colour so deep in tint; the wings and tail blackish washed with olive, especially 
on the secondaries ; sides of face and cheeks, as well as the throat and fore-neck, ashy-grey, paler than 
in the male, the throat slightly varied with ashy-whitish edges to the feathers, producing a dusky 
spotted appearance; remainder of under surface of body light chestnut-rufous ; thighs dark ashy ; 
under tail-coverts blackish, broadly centred with white. Total length 11 inches, culmen 11, 
wing 5:5, tail 4:15, tarsus 1:4. 
Dr. Pleske describes the young birds as striped, after the manner of all immature Ouzels, and 
says that the young female is like the male, but is somewhat lighter. Не gives (2. c.) full descriptions 
of the young of both sexes. 
Тһе male and female here described and figured are in the Seebohm Collection, the male having 
been obtained by Abbé David in Moupin, and the female by Prjewalski in Kan-su. 
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