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are hazel, and the leet dusky. Phe head is thickly furnished with 
feathers. The forepart of the neck, throat, and the breast, are 
glossy black, the hind-head is of a fine reddish rusty; a white 
line arises from the base of the bill to the eye, behind which it 
becomes wider, descending on the sides of the neck somewhat 
lound the bi east, the belly and vent are white; the flanks poste¬ 
riorly with long blackish streaks. The back and scapulars are 
brownish black, the feathers being skirted with rusty j the smaller 
wing-coverts are blackish, margined with white, the greater coverts 
margined with rufous, and white at tip, forming two white bands 
across the wings: the primaries are blackish, edged with white; 
secondaries emarginated at tip, dusky, edged with rusty: the wings 
when closed reach to three-fourths the tail. The tail is two and 
a half inches in length, rather forked, and of a blackish colour; 
the outer feather on each side with a white cuneiform spot; and 
the outer web almost entirely white; the second with a white 
cuneiform spot only. The hind nail is almost an inch long. 
The adult female is somewhat smaller than the male. In spring 
she has the top of the head, the shoulders, back, and wing-coverts 
brownish black, the feathers being edged with rusty; the sides of 
the head blackish intermixed with rusty; over the eyebrows a 
whitish line, as in the male, tinged with rusty; the nucha and 
rump are brownish rusty, with small black spots; the throat is 
white, encircled with brown; remaining inferior parts white: 
wings and tail as in the other sex. 
The male in autumn and winter has the bill brownish yellow; 
irides and feet brownish. Head black, varied with small spots 
of rusty, auriculars partly encircled with black feathers; throat 
yellowish white, finely streaked with deep black. Fore-neck and 
breast black, mixed with grayish white; the line passing through 
the eye down the breast yellowish white, becoming darker on the 
breast; lower surface from the breast white, spotted on the flanks. 
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