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Adult male:
The forehead is greyish-white with light grey scaling.
The top pf the head and nape are bluish-grey with dull
grey scaling. The back of the neck and the upper mantle
are greyish-brown and lightly scaled grey-brown. The
mantle, scapulars, teritals, inner secondaries, wing-coverts,
back, rump and uppertail-coverts are greyish-brown with
bold blackish-brown scaling. The inner two pairs of
rectrices are also greyish-brown. The outer rectices
are blackish with broad white tips and white outerweb
to the outermost feathers. The outer secondaries and
primaries are red-brown with black tips. The primary
wing-coverts are red-brown with black tips and edges
to the outwebs. The chin and throat are whitish with
very faint scaling. The face, sides of the neck and
the breast pale pinkish-grey with light blackish-brown
scaling. The lower breast is pinkish brown, grading
to buffish-white on the flanks, lower belly and undertail-coverts.
Undertail is blackish with broad white tips. Underwing-coverts
and axillaries are black, or sometimes red-brown with
black edgings. The underside of the flight feathers
are redish-brown with brown tips. The iris is variable,
orange to red. The narrow eye-ring is blue-grey. The
bill is black. The legs and feet are bright coral-red.
Adult female:
Females are duller pink below.
Juvenile:
Considerably duller and more greyish-brown. The feathering
on the breast is similar to the adult scaling. The feet
and tarsi are dull red.
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