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the fore-neck, chest, and sides of body orange-rufous, the former somewhat overshaded with brown ; 
centre of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pure white as in the male, the latter with 
brown edges to the feathers; under wing-coverts and axillaries duller ashy-grey than in the male, 
with a slight orange wash on the coverts. Total length 9 inches, wing 4:85. 
It should be noted that a bird from Hakodadi, determined by Henry Whitely as a female, is 
exactly like the adult male. 
The young male after its first moult resembles the adult female, and has the throat white 
streaked with brown. ‘The orange-colour on the sides of the body is lighter than in the adults and 
inclines more to a cinnamon tint. А male procured by Mr. Ringer at Nagasaki in February has 
the throat dusky brown only at the base, which seems to indicate that the fully adult plumage is not 
assumed till after the second moult. Young birds can always be recognized by the pale buff tips to 
the greater wing-coverts. 
Young. Brown like the old female, but having a broad eyebrow of cinnamon-buff, the feathers 
of the ear-coverts and the entire upper surface mesially streaked with buff, and the greater wing- 
coverts having triangular spots of the same colour at the tip; throat buffy-white, without dark 
stripes; chest and sides of body cinnamon-buff, the breast and abdomen white, all these underparts 
largely spotted with dusky brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dull ashy-grey. 
The descriptions are taken from specimens in the Seebohm Collection; those of the male and 
female from specimens collected near Yokohama by Mr. Harry Pryer, and that of the young bird 
from a specimen obtained by Blakiston near Hakodadi. Тһе figures are drawn from a male from 
Yokohama and a female from Formosa in the Seebohm Collection. [R. B. S.] 
