Male: The head is a soft blue-grey with the rump and upper tail the same blue-grey. The iris is brown to black. The orbital skin shows greyish. Bill black with a greyer base and cere. The neck shows a broad black collar around the back. The back and wings are a wine red. The primary coverts and flight feathers are a blackish brown. The central tail feathers are the grey of the rump with the outer tail feathers being the blackish brown. The end halves are white on the outermost three tail feathers and grey on the others. Following the underline, the chin shows a light, white to a pale pink on the throat and a darker pink on the breast to the belly. The undertail coverts are white with the undertail white with black beginnings to the outer feathers. The under wing shows a pale grey to white on the inner coverts and black brown on the flights. The feet are a dark red.

Female: On the female the forehead is a grey brown with the overall top line showing brown. The flight feathers show dark brown while the back and rump are more gray. The throat is a pale grey blending into the brown grey breast and belly. The undertail coverts show white. The underwings are off white with brown flight feathers.

Juvenile: The juvenile shows coloration very similar to the female except they lack the black collar. Many of the body and wing feathers show buff fringes and the primary coverts show chestnut tips.

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They prefer the dry, open country and scrubland

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