| Description:
Adult
male: The forehead is pale pinkish-grey. The top of
the head, nape, back of the neck and upper mantle
are grey or pinkish-grey. The mantle, scapulars, tertials,
inner secondaries, inner greater and median wing-coverts,
back, rump, uppertail-coverts and inner two pair of
remiages are greyish-brown. The outer rectrices are
blackish-brown with broad white tips. The outer secondaries
and primaries are red-brown with brown tips. The primary
wing-coverts are red-brown with blackish-brown tips
and edges to the outwebs. The tertials, inner two
median and inner two greater wing-coverts have metallic
blackish-purple subterminal line on the outerwebs.
The remaining wing-coverts are pale greyish-brown
with innermost lesser wing-coverts with purplish-black
spots. The chin and throat are whitish. The face,
sides of the neck and the breast are pale pinkish-grey
becoming more greyish on the belly, flanks and undertail-coverts.
The undertail is blackish-brown with greyish-white
tips. The underwing-coverts and axillaries are reddish-brown.
The underside of flight feathers is reddish-brown
with brown tips. The iris is variable, yellow-brow
or orange. The orbital skin is blue-grey. The bill
is black. The legs and feet are bright coral-red.
Adult
female: Females are generally duller. Similarly colored
to teh males above, but rather ashy grey-brown below.
Juvenile:
Juveniles are considerably duller and more greyish-brown
overall. The scapulars and wing-coverts are fringed
buff-brown. The wing-covert spotting is much more
obscure and more brownish-black. The feet and tarsi
are dull red.
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