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Adult
male: The forehead is pale grey, grading
to bluish-grey on the top of the head
and the nape. The back of the nack
and mantle are greyish-brown. Scapulars,
tertials, inner wing -coverts, back,
rump and uppertail-coverts are greyish-brown.
The outer wing-coverts are all white,
appearing as a broad white shoulder
when the wing is folded and as a wing-bar
when in flight. The white contrasts
with the blackish-brown secondaries
and primaries. The inner lesser wing-coverts
have a bluish-purple diagonal stripe
and the tertials have a single subterminal
stripe on the outerweb. The inner
two pairs of rectrices are greyish-brown
with darker tips and the outer rectricies
are white; Picui Ground Doves have
a striking tail pattern. The chin
and throat are white. The face, sides
of the neck and the breast are pale
vinous-pink grading to white on the
belly and the undertail-coverts. The
undertail is white. The under-side
of the flight feathers are dull brown.
The iris is grey and there is a narrow
grey eye-ring. The bill is black.
Legs and feet are reddish-pink.
Adult female: Famales are generally
more fawn grey-brown above and paler
fawn-brown below with no vinous wash.
The forehead is fawn-brown grading
to a rather more greyish-fawn-brown
on the back of the neck, mantle and
back to inner rectrices. The outer
rectricies are darker greyish-brown.
Tertials and inner wingcoverts are
fawn-brown grading to more greyish-white
outer wing -coverts (covert and tertial
markings identical to those in male).
The inner secondaries are dull ashy-brown
grading to blackish-brown on the outer
secondaries and primaries. The chin
and throat are whitish grading to
fawn-brown on the neck and breast,
and to white on the belly and undertail-coverts.
Juvenile: Considerabley duller with
rather more buff hue overall. The
upperparts are generally fringed buff
and the wing-coverts and breast are
reddish-buff or buff at the center.
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