In the female the streak over the eye ami sides of the head are
reddish white, with a few specks and lines of brown; forehead white,
streaked with brown; crown, brownish black; the feathers edged
with pale reddish brown. Neck and nape, grevish ash-colour, tinged
with pah orange brown; chin and throat, reddish white, with a few
specks and streaks of brown. The band on the breast is not so
dist inct, and greyish white; the orange brown much paler, and
marbled and tinged with greyish ash-colour, and the lower part
mixed with white feathers; back, brown tinged with grey; each
feather being deeply edged with pale orange brown. Tail, deep
brown; the two middle leathers margined near their tips with reddish
white, the rest having large white tips, the outermost feather with
its outer web white. Under tail coverts, reddish white.
In the young the bill is black; iris, dark brown; over the eye is a
broad band of buif orange; forehead, and sides of the head, yellowish
cream-colour, with small spots and streaks of greyish brown; crown
and back of the head, neck on the back, and nape, dark brown, all
more or less broadly edged with buff orange; neck on the sides, buff
orange. Breast, grey, slightly tinged with reddish white, and marked
on each side with large spots of olive green; below white, spotted
here and there with greyish brown. Greater and lesser wing coverts,
olive green, deeply edged with reddish white. Tail, olive green, the
feathers margined with white, the centre ones tipped with reddish white,
and the three side ones ending in a large irregular whitish spot. Legs,
pale olive green; Iocs, light yellow on the soles.
The plate is from a drawing by the Rev. K. 1'. Alington.