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the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts darker than the 
back, the feathers being blackish with ashy-grey margins ; tail- 
feathers dark brown, with paler edges ; wing-coverts delicate 
lavender-grey, the greater coverts broadly tipped with white, 
forming a broad band across the wing and making the upper 
border of the speculum ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts ashy- 
brown, with rather broad white margins ; quills blackish, more 
ashy on the inner web; secondaries dusky-brown, externally 
dull metallic-green and broadly tipped with white, forming the 
lower border to the green speculum ; inner secondaries brown 
edged with whitish, and externally ashy near the base, the 
innermost blue-grey; the adjoining scapulars long and slightly 
sickle-shaped, black with a slight greenish gloss, and relieved 
by a well-defined white longitudinal streak along the shaft ; 
crown of head blackish, extending to the nape ; a few pale shaft- 
streaks on the forehead ; from above the eye a broad band of 
white skirting the black ; lores, sides of face, and throat deep 
vinous-red, with numerous tiny shaft-streaks of white ; the fore- 
neck and breast sandy-buff, thickly barred with lines and 
circular marks of blackish ; abdomen white, or with a buff 
tinge, especially on the under tail-coverts, which are mottled 
and streaked with brown centres ; sides of body white, with 
fine cross-bars of greyish-black, with a double band of white 
and blue-grey divided by a black line on each side of the lower 
flanks; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the edge of the 
wing bluish-grey ; bill black ; feet greyish-brown ; iris hazel. 
Total length, 16 inches; culmen, i'55; wing, 7’3; tail, 27; 
tarsus, I’o. 
Adult Female. — Different from the male. General colour 
above dark brown, with rufescent edges to the feathers ; lower 
back and rump somewhat darker, with whitish margins ; upper 
tail-coverts brown, edged and barred with rufe.scent or buffy- 
white ; tail-feathers similar to those of the male ; wing-coverts 
light brown, washed with ashy-grey ; the greater coverts margined 
with white, forming a white wing-bar ; quills dark brown, the 
secondaries blackish, tipped with white ; crown of head minutely 
streaked with brown and buffy-white, as also the sides of the 
face and neck, becoming lighter on the hind-neck; an indistinct 
eyebrow of dull white ; chin and throat white ; lower throat 
longitudinally streaked with minute brown centres to the 
