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smaller in size; the colour of the head is more mixed with 
grey, and streaked with dark brown. The breast on the 
upper part is spotted with dark brown, and the buff on the 
lower part is less bright in colour. 
Young birds of the year resemble the female. 
M. Temminck and M. Viellot speak of different varieties of 
this bird. The latter enumerates six different ones: one of 
them has the head and neck green. Some, he says, are oc¬ 
casionally met with entirely white, and others partially so; 
others, again, of a uniform blackish brown, but this the 
result of their being fed on hemp seed when kept in con¬ 
finement. 
