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Geocichline markings on inner webs of quills, white. | 
Bill dark brown, paler at the base of the under mandible. Second primary intermediate in 
length between the fifth and seventh; legs, feet, and claws flesh-colour; outer tail-feathers 0:1 inch 
shorter than the longest. 
Length of wing 4:8 to 4:4 inches, tail 3:15 to 2:85 inches, culmen 0:95 to 0:8 inch, tarsus 1:35 to 
1:2inch; bastard-primary projecting slightly beyond the primary-coverts, its exposed portion measuring 
11 to 0:9 inch. 
The pattern of colour is precisely the same in the female, but in most cases the greyish-blue of 
the upper parts is more or less suffused with green, which apparently almost, if not quite, disappears 
with age, every intermediate stage being found in sexed females. 
Young in first plumage of both sexes have the crown and nape much browner than in adults, and 
the mantle much more rufous, the feathers of all these parts having pale shaft-streaks. The median 
wing-coverts are dark brown, with large rufous fan-shaped terminal spots; and the greater wing- 
coverts are greyish-blue, with small rufous tips. There are two broad dark bars across the ear-coverts ; 
the throat is rusty-white, surrounded by an obscure black gorget, and the breast and flank-feathers 
have obscure pale centres and obscure black tips; but the Geocichline markings on the inner webs of 
the quills are white, as in the adult. 
If it be safe to generalize from two young males and one young female, it would appear that the 
males moult direct from the first plumage to the greyish-blue of the adult on the back, whilst the 
females moult to the greyish-green of the usual female dress. 
The bird of the year of both sexes has apparently more or less distinct traces of rusty or white 
tips to the greater wing-coverts. 
Females vary very much in the amount of green on the back and rump, and both sexes vary 
somewhat in the orange-chestnut of the crown and nape, which is occasionally, in what appear to be 
newly moulted examples, almost as dark as in typical specimens of Geocichla rubecula. Otherwise 
the colours in this species are remarkably constant, with the striking exception of the amount of 
white at the end of the median wing-coverts. 
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