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dark chocolate brown. The chin, throat, and breast have the 
- feathers edged with white. The band across the breast is 
narrower, and its colour less pure, and clouded with reddish 
brown and grey; the tips of the feathers are pale brown in 
a crescent shape; back, dark chocolate brown. The wings, 
which extend to the width of a foot and a half, have the 
quill feathers margined with brownish grey. The under tail 
coverts have a white line along the middle of the feathers. 
The young male resembles the adult female, but in the 
young female the band across the breast is scarcely discernible. 
The upper parts of the plumage have the edges of the 
feathers brownish or olive grey, those on the shoulders with 
a clear streak along the shaft of yellowish white, and the 
quills more deeply margined with grey. Bill, deep brown, 
orange at the corner; head, crown, neck on the back, and 
nape, brownish black, the feathers tipped with black and 
edged with dark reddish yellow; the neck in front is yellowish 
white on the middle; chin, white. The throat is yellowish 
white, sparingly marked with brownish black, which latter 
colour trenches on the former as the bird advances in age. 
The breast has every feather varied with alternate bars of 
yellowish white and blackish olive brown, which gives it a 
mottled appearance; the crescent is brownish white, each 
feather with a crescent-shaped dusky line near the tip. Back, 
brownish black, the feathers tipped with black, and edged 
with dark reddish yellow. Greater wing coverts, edged with 
pale yellowish grey; lesser wing coverts, with a central 
streak of yellowish; primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, 
dark olive brown, edged with yellowish white or grey. The 
tail has the outer feathers edged with pate grey, with which 
all the feathers are tipped; under tail coverts, with a longi¬ 
tudinal white spot along the shaft, and their tips yellowish. 
Toes and claws, pale brown. 
White varieties are said to have occurred, and specimens 
with white feathers about the head have been occasionally 
met with. 
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