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red, the sides brownish or yellowish grey, but all with a 
shade of pink; back, brownish grey, inclining to pale yellowish 
brown on its lower part. 
The wings extend to the width of eight inches; the quills 
are eighteen in number; the first is very short, the second 
rather shorter than the third, which and the fourth are of 
nearly equal length, and at the same time the longest in the 
wings: underneath, the wings are grey; greater and lesser 
wing coverts, widely edged with yellowish brown; primaries, 
secondaries, and tertiaries, blackish brown, edged with greyish 
or yellowish brown, the latter the most widely so. The tail, 
rather long, blackish brown, the outer feather on each side 
with an oblique longitudinal band of greyish white extending 
over the outer half of the inner web and the whole of the 
outer one; the tips of the next three feathers are also whitish; 
underneath, the tail is grey. Legs, toes, and claws, bluish 
grey. 
The female is slightly smaller; she resembles the male in 
appearance, but the sides of the head are paler in colour, the 
crown, the neck on the back, and nape have the grey tinged 
with brown, the back and upper parts more tinged with 
yellowish brown, and the breast with grey. 
In the young the eye is dark coloured. 
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