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gated into two lax velvety shields: bill and
legs black: “iris light blue, with a circle of pale yellowish-green colour” (D Albertis). Total length
12°5 inches, culmen 1:3, wing 6:1, tail 5-25, tarsus 2:1,

Adult female. Different from the male, being dark chestnut-brown above ; quills and tail blackish,
externally reddish brown ; crown of head, nasal plumes, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts black ;
cheeks and throat greyish white, finely barred with black and separated from each other by a broad malar
band of black ; sides of neck black, encroaching on the sides of the lower throat; remainder of under
surface of body, from the lower throat downwards, isabelline, regularly barred with black. Total length
11:5 inches, wing 5:9.

‘The specimens figured in the Plate are in the British Museum, and the descriptions are taken from birds
in the same collection.