ashy brown, edged with tawny on both webs : “ bill black ; feet dark lead-colour ; iris chestnut ” 
(D' Albertis) ; “ iris violescent brown ” ( Beccari ). Total length 13*3 inches, culmen 2*8, wing 5*95, 
tail 5*5, tarsus T4. 
Adult female. Differs from the male in altogether wanting the ornamental plumes; the throat and cheeks 
brown, with indistinct linear streaks of blackish; the under surface of the body fulvescent, barred with 
dusky brown, the markings on the fore-neck and breast rather duller, and the cross-bars somewhat 
concentric, the bars wider apart and more distinct on the lower breast and abdomen. Total length 
12*5 inches, culmen 3*4, wing 5*9, tail 4*9, tarsus 1*35. 
The young male at first resembles the adult female in colour. 
The Plate is the same as that published in the late Mr. Gould’s ‘ Birds of New Guinea,’ and the 
descriptions are taken from examples in the British Museum. 
