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plate, has the head, ear-coverts, chin, and breast rich black ; 

 a white streak commences above the eye, and extends down the 

 sides of the neck, until it joins the white of the under parts. 

 The nape of the neck is bright rust colour. The back is 

 tinged with rufous and ash, and each feather is dusky along 

 the shaft. The quill-feathers of the wings are dusky, with 

 whitish edges, the secondaries and tertials edged with rust ; 

 the wing-coverts similarly edged and tipped with white. The 

 tail-feathers are dusky, edged with greyish-white, and have a 

 portion of the outer feather on each side white. The under 

 parts are white ; the flanks streaked with black. The iris is 

 chestnut : the beak ochre-yellow, tipped with black ; the legs 

 and feet black. 



The female has the black plumage of the head and breast 

 edged with pale brown and grey, and the chestnut feathers 

 of the nape fringed with white ; the chin is greyish, and the 

 white parts of the plumage not so pure. 



After the autumnal moult, the black feathers in this species 

 are broadly fringed with brown ; the ear-coverts and streak 

 over the eye are yellowish ; and all the feathers of the upper 

 plumage are so broadly edged with reddish-brown as nearly to 

 obscure them ; the flanks are tinged with brown, and the 

 throat is whitish. In this state of plumage the sexes are 

 nearly alike. 



The young female has the bill yellowish-brown, the head 

 and all the upper parts of the body pale wood-brown, tinged 

 with yellowish-grey ; the shafts of the feathers blackish- 

 brown ; greater wing-coverts and secondary quills blackish- 

 brown, deeply margined with chestnut brown, the tips white. 

 The quills are dusky, with paler edges. Above the eye 

 is a broad streak of pale wood-brown ; the cheeks and 

 ear- coverts are wood-brown, the latter mixed with black. 

 From the corners of the under mandible extends a streak 



