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cheeks a paler patch of the same : the back part 

 of the neck, scapulars, back, and rump, cinereous 

 grey, mixed with dusky, particularly on the back, 

 where the middle of the feathers possess more of 

 the last colour : the upper tail-coverts are whitish, 

 the largest immediately impending the tail dusky, 

 broadly margined with grey: the whole under 

 parts white, except a ferruginous bar on the upper 

 part of the breast, very obscure in the middle : 

 the six first quill-feathers dusky, slightly edged 

 with grey on the outer webs, and on the points of 

 the three last ; the seventh has part of the inner 

 web white half way from the base, and a slight 

 streak of the same down the outer web close to 

 the shaft ; the eighth like the last, but the outer 

 web is white, with dusky spots ; from the ninth to 

 the twelfth all white on the inner web, and down 

 the outer web close to the shaft, with a dusky 

 margin ; the two succeeding all white ; those next 

 the body dusky black, bordered with ferruginous : 

 the smaller coverts are mottled dusky black and 

 cinereous, the feathers being deeply margined with 

 the latter ; the last row of these next to the greater 

 coverts is tipped with white, forming a narrow 

 band across the wing : the coverts immediately 

 impending the quills much the same, tinged with 

 ferruginous : the tail somewhat forked ; the six 

 middle feathers dusky black, margined with pale 

 ferruginous brown ; the fourth on each side the 

 same, with a white stripe down the inner web near 

 the shaft; the two outer all white, except half the 

 outer web towards the tip, which is dusky : legs 



