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together with the femorals, are dingy gray, slightly 
waved with dusky; the toes are dusky; the lateral 
scales dingy whitish, and the nails blackish. 
The female is smaller than the male, being more than 
an inch shorter. The general plumage is much more 
varied, with less of black, but much more of rusty. 
There is a tinge of rufous on the feathers of the nostrils ; 
those of the head, neck, and upper part of the back, 
are black, with two or three bright bands of orange 
rusty, and tipped with gray ; there is more of the gray 
tint on the neck, on the lower part of which above, the 
orange bands are broader; all the remaining parts of 
the body above, including the tail-coverts, are more 
confusedly banded and mottled with duller rusty, 
orange, and gray, on a blackish ground, these colours 
themselves being also sprinkled with a little black ; 
the sides of the head, the throat, and all the neck 
below, are dull rusty orange, each feather varied with 
black; on the lower portion of the breast, the black 
bands are broad and very deep, alternating equally with 
the orange rusty, and even gradually encroaching upon 
the ground colour; the breast is deep black, each 
feather, as well as those of the under parts, including 
the lower tail-coverts, are broadly tipped with pure 
white, forming over all the inferior surface very large 
and close spots, each feather having besides one or two 
rusty orange spots, much paler and duller on the belly, 
and scarcely appearing when the plumage lies close: 
the feathers of the flanks are blackish, deeper at first, 
and barred with very bright orange, then much mottled 
with dull grayish rusty, each having a triangular white 
spot near the tip. The wings and tail are similar to 
those of the male, the variegation of the scapulars and 
upper coverts being only of a much more rusty tinge, 
dull orange in the middle on the shaft, all the larger 
feathers having, moreover, a white streak along the 
shaft, ending in a pure white spot, wanting in the male. 
The outer edge of the primaries is more broadly whitish, 
and the tertials are dingy white at the point, being also 
crossed with dull orange ; the tail feathers, especially 
