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the exception of a colour on the breast, which, as a continua- 
tion of the colour of the back, is of a brownish grey: the 
white encroaches somewhat upon the middle of this collar on 
the lower side, and extends in a broad ring all round the 
neck: after this collar, the whole upper parts of the body are 
brownish grey, precisely of the same hue as the top of the 
head, and like it have eaeh feather slightly edged with pale. 
The wings are four and three-quarter inches long, exactly 
reaching the tip of the tail, the smaller and middle coverts 
and tertials are of the colour of the body ; the larger are 
darker, white at the tips, and they form a conspicuous band 
across ; the spurious wing and under wing-coverts are white, 
somewhat mixed with dingy: the quill-feathers are dark grey, 
blackish at their point and on their outer web: the shaft of 
all is white towards the middle, and the secondaries have, 
moreover, a white spot along it. The tail is two and a half 
inches long, slightly rounded ; the outer and shortest feather 
is white, with a small elongated spot towards the middle of 
its inner web; the second each side has a much broader and 
darker one extending on both webs, dingy at base, and pure 
white on the shaft and at tip only: all the remaining ones are 
dusky at base, with a broad black space towards the point, 
and are terminated with white, less pure and less extended 
aceording as they are nearer to the true middle ones, which 
are merely edged with whitish. The feet are yellowish; the 
tarsus is almost an inch long, and the middle toe three- 
quarters ; the outer is connected to the second joint with the | 
middle one by a membrane; and the inner is also connected 
with the middle, but no farther than the first joint. 
In the adult, well described by Wilson, the bill is orange 
beyond the middle, black at the point: the margins of the eye- 
lids are orange: the irides are brown: the front, throat, neck 
broadly round, and all beneath pure white ; the head is of a grey 
colour, somewhat tinged with reddish : a broad sincipital band 
and a broad ring round the base of the neck jet-black: lora, 
continued through the eye into a broad patch dilating on the 
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