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others : the male has the upper part of the head 

 and of the body dusky-ash sprinkled with brown 

 and dashed with black : a clear red band covers the 

 occiput, and extends from one eye to the other : the 

 scapulars and wing-coverts are spotted with golden- 

 red : the anterior border of the first quill is red ; the 

 others are striped at their base with red and dusky, and 

 are tinged with cinereous the rest of their length : 

 the sides of the head and of the neck are marbled 

 with white, red, and dusky : the breast is transversely 

 striped with the same colour ; and the rest of the 

 under parts are reddish-white, with delicate and di- 

 stant undulated lines : the two elongated middle tail- 

 feathers are ash-colour, marked with black zigzag and 

 diagonal bars of the same colour ; the four next, on 

 each side, are striped with red and black at their 

 base, then follows a broad space of plain black, and 

 the tips are greyish-white, marbled with darker grey ; 

 the two outer feathers are grey, with an irregular 

 black dash, for some distance, in the direction of the 

 shaft ; the rest of the feathers are whitish, marbled 

 with ash. The female and young have the tail-fea- 

 thers shorter than in the male, but the tail is con- 

 structed similarly : the two middle feathers resemble 

 those of the male, the others are transversely striped 

 towards the tip, and the lateral one on each side is 

 dusky, striped with red at its base, spotted with 

 greyish-white on the inner web, and rayed with black 

 and grey towards the tip. Both sexes have the bris- 

 tles of the gape considerably elongated, and reaching 

 as far as the tip of the beak ; they are black : the 



