| 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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