rump and upper tail-coverte chestnut-red, edged with tawny; greater and lesser wing-eoverts brownish black
margraed externally with tawny and tipped with buflj white ; primaries and most o f the secondaries brown,
narrowly edged with tawny; the. last three or four secondaries, nearest the body, conspicuously margined
with tawny ; under surface white, with the exception o f the centres of the flank feathers, which are chestnut-
red ; tail dark brown, the centre feathers edged with tawny; a broad longitudinal oblique stripe of white
down the centre of the external feather, and a narrower one down the next on each side.
In the female the general arrangement of=the colouring o f the body is very similar, but much paler; the
flank-marks extend further down the sides ;, and the ear-coverts and the black above the superciliary mark
are much less deep.
The Plate represents a male and a female, of the size of life.