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fame : fides of the head white 5 hind head cine- 
reous ; the reft of the head, the neck, breaft, and 
back, dufky black: the lower part of the breaft 
and fcapulars chefnut : belly white : upper tail co- 
verts and wings, much as in the male ; legs dulky 
reddifh brown.’^ “ Some birds of this fex have the 
brown feathers edged with ferruginous, others not/’ 
I have likewife obferved in fome a white fpot on 
each fide of the lower part of the neck.” He addSj 
that in the females which he had feen, the long 
tail-feathers were wanting. 
