| Description:
Buffy-brown,
head and underparts more or less suffused
pinkish-vinous, narrow white-bordered
black collar on hindneck.
Male:
Forehead is pale soft grey. The top
of the head to the nape is greyish-brown
suffused with pink-vinous. Black feathers
with dove-grey tips form a black "collar"
with gray border around the lower
neck. Mantle, scapulars, inner wing-coverts
and back to uppertail-coverts are
pale grey-brown. The outer wing-coverts
are greyer, forming a wing-panel.
The primary coverts are darker blackish-grey,
frosted with paler grey centrally.
Flight feathers are blackish with
narrow buff fringes. The uppertail
is grey-brown in the center and the
outer feathers are grey. The coloring
graduates from dark grey to almost
white from base to tip. Chin and throat
are creamy-white. Ear-coverts to the
belly is a dull vinous, variably suffused
grey, with darker brownish-grey on
the flight feathers. The iris is dark
reddish brown and the orbital skin
is greyish-white. The bill is black,
greyer on the base and cere. Feet
are dull purplish-red.
Female:
Coloration is very similar to the
male but duller in tones and intensity.
Juvenile:
Coloration is similar to the adult
but paler. There is no black collar
and the upperline is narrowly trimmed
in buffs.
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