The following is a full description of the type:—
Lores, forehead, sinciput a rich deep brownish chestnut red
a faint, very narrow yellowish streak under the anterior portion
of the lores ; crown, occiput and nape a rich deep rufescent
olive brown ; a broad grey supercilium, continued backwards
over the car-coverts and partly round the nape ; chin, throat,
cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of neck and the basal portion of the
back of the neck, except exactly in the centre, a very rich
bright ferruginous, spotted everywhere, except on the chin and
throat, with velvet black, a band of which clearly defines the
ferruginous across the base of the throat. Immediately above
this black band, in the centre of the base of the neck in front,
is a conspicuous pure white patch, about 0'8 long and 0'35 to 04.
deep. Below the black band, the breast and sides of the breast
are rich slightly ferruginous maroon. I should mention that
on cither side of the upper portion of the throat a very narrow
mandibular white stripe, about 0'6 long, runs down from the
base of the lower mandible, and that above this a black line,
beginning under the posterior portion of the lores, runs under
the eye ; the abdomen and rest of lower parts pale slatey grey,
rather sullied, and in some lights slightly brownish, and
many of the feathers with a small irregular central white spot
near the tip; the flank feathers, (where the white spots are
largest and most conspicuous), tinged or margined with rusty or
ferruginous chestnut; the vent and lower tail-coverts strongly
tinged with dull olive, the coverts, moreover, having the white
spot nearer the tips and more or less expanded into a bar,
and being here and there a little tinged with rusty ; wing
lining about the carpal joint a rich hair brown ; the rest a pale
grey brown (much the colour of the lower surface of the quills),
a little tipped with white.
Upper back and intcrscapulary region plain olive, a little
slatey in some lights towards the bases of the feathers ; some
of the feathers very narrowly and inconspicuously fringed with
black; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts a rather
browner and brighter olive, some of the feathers very narrowly
fringed with black, and-most of them with conspicuous, hastate,
subterminal, velvet black spots ; coverts and scapulars and
tips of tertiaries similar (the black spot varying in shape from
a sort of lunule on the scapulars to a linear lanceolate dash on
some of the coverts), but the feathers more or less tinged
towards the margins with deep ferruginous ; the primaries plain
uniform hair brown ; secondaries similar, but freckled and
mottled, more or less, on the outer webs and at the tips with
ferruginous.