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the front to the occiput is crimson, hut the feathers, 
which are black, are only tipt with this colour : 
the sides of the head, ears, chin, and part of the 
throat, are fulvous-white or cream-colour, thickly 
covered with small transverse blackish spots ; these 
spots begin to assume the form of bands on the 
lower neck and breast, and then cross all the re- 
maining under plumage upon a whitish ground 
tinged with olive, the breadth of each band being 
equal to the space between them : the whole of the 
upper plumage is olive-green, brighter and more 
yellow on the back: the quills internally are brown: 
the primaries have about five small whitish spots, 
almost obsolete, on their outer webs ; but the rest 
of the quills have none on their outer surface : the 
tail is brownish-black with no external spots, but 
some of the feathers have a few, almost obsolete, at 
the base of their inner webs : inner wing-covers 
cream-colour with few or no spots : hinder toe 
scarcely shorter than the fore toe : the wings are 
short. 
Total length, 7j inches ; bill, from the gape, T 7 5 ; 
wings, 3 t 6 ;j ; tail beyond, 2 ; ditto from the base, 
2J ; tarsus, 
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