| Description:
Adult
male: The forehead is whitish blue-grey
grading to bluish-grey at the top
of the head. Iris is red or reddish-brown,
pinkish or yellow. The narrow eye-ring
is greyish olive-green and the bill
is greenish-olive. The chin and throat
are white. Face, sides of neck and
breast are bluish-grey, grading to
pale grey on the belly and flanks.
The nape, back of the neck, mantle,
scapulars, tertials, wing-coverts,
back, rump and uppertail-coverts and
inner two pairs of tail feathers are
also bluish-grey. The outer tail feathers
are black. Tertials, inner greater
and median wing-coverts have broad
blackish-blue patches edged white
on the outer edges. The lesser wing-coverts
have white-edged blackish-blue spots.
The inner secondaries are dark bluish
grey grading to blackish-brown primaries.
Undertail-feathers are bluish-grey
edged paler-grey -no white edges.
The underwing feathers and axillaries
are blue-grey. The underside of flight
feathers are blackish brown. Legs
anf feet are reddish-pink.
Adult female: Generally fawn-brown
above and paler creamy buff-brown
below. The chin and throat are whitish
grading to creamy-buff or whitish-buff
on the neck and breast, and then to
white on the belly and undertail feathers.
The forehead and top of the head are
greyish-brown grading to fawn-brown
at the back of the neck, mantle and
back. The lower back, rump and uppertail-coverts
are red-brown, the inner tail feathers
slightly darker. The outer tail feahers
are dark brown with narrow buff-brown
tips. Tertials and wing-coverts are
olive-brown. The covert and tertial
markings are similar to those in male
but reddish-brown or maroon. Secondaries
are dull brown grading to blackish-brown
on outer secondaries and primaries
feathers. Underwing feathers and axillaries
are brown.
Juvenile: Similar to females overall,
but with faint buff fringes to most
of the mantle, scapulars, wing-coverts
and breast. Wing feathers have dull
blackish-brown spots. Feet and taris
are dull red.
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