| 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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