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HISTORY OF 
small mound. It lays seven eggs, of a dusky yellow colour, 
spotted with brown. 
The adult male has the crown, occiput, throat, neck, and 
upper part of the breast, deep black. An irregular stripe of 
dusky or reddish white extends from the eye down each side of 
the neck to the breast, which, with the abdomen and under tail 
coverts, is of the same colour. Back of the neck, chesnut ; 
quills and tail feathers, brown, with the outer edges dusky 
white ; back, brown, each feather with the centre black. In 
the female, the plumage is altogether of a duller cast ; the 
black of the head and neck is mottled with white, and the 
chesnut feathers on the back of the neck are edged with grey. 
The young much resemble the female. 
