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lids are naked, and olive-brown in colour. The legs are pale 
rust-colour in the tarsus, the feet are olive-brown. 
The female very nearly resembles the male, but her colours 
are more obscured by brown, and the rose-colour upon the 
breast is less apparent. It must be observed that this colour 
fades very soon after death, so that in preserved specimens 
nothing of it is to be seen. 
Figure 67 in the egg-plate is that of the Whitethroat. 
