Adult female.—Differs from the male in being duller brown above and in having the wing-coverts
brown like the back, the median and greater coverts with triangular spots of black at the tip, the outermost
o f the former with a white spot at the end; primary-coverts blackish brown; lores and ear-coverts brown,
forming a streak along the sides o f the head, above which is a tolerably well-defined white eyebrow; cheeks
and throat pure white; remainder o f undersurface o f body from the lower throat downwards orange-
chestnut shading into fulvous brown on the flanks; under wing- and tail-coverts as in the male.
Total length 8 ‘75 inches, culmen 0*95, wing 3 -75, tail 3 -5, tarsus 1*2.
The figures in the Plate represent a male and the supposed adult female, o f the natural size ; that o f the
male is drawn from a specimen in my own collection, and the female from a skin now in the British
Museum.
