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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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